[…] a theoretical framework. He concludes: ‘With the Congress, historical context is everything. In the 1950s it was dedicated to forming alliances between the American and European Non- Communist Left in defence of cultural-intellectual values, and as ideological support for the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic alliance. The time was right, in other words, for […]
[…] AFRICAN CAMPAIGN, NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, FRANCE 1945-74 MP (CON) 1953 JT PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. HEAD OF COMMITTEE LOOKING INTO PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST COMMUNIST REGIMES 1954 PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC FOR COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS 1947-50 CHAIRMAN BRITISH EMPIRES PRODUCERS ORGANISATION 1962-64 CONSERVATIVE COMMONWEALTH COUNSELLOR DONELLY, MAJOR FRANK MI6 (B) 1946 DEPT Q […]
[…] assassination In October he sent me an e-mail, of which this is an extract. During my research on the JFK assassination I received information that an anti- communist group called the Intercontinental Penetration Force (Interpen) was involved in the operation. Interpen was a privately funded right-wing group that received support from the CIA in […]
[…] the historian James A. Nathan. This, says Kwitney, ‘contained sensational assertions’. Kwitney called Nathan to ‘seek documentation’ but ‘his only documentation ….was press clippings, including some from communist and other strongly partisan and unreliable publications, and from small-publication journalists I knew to be unreliable….. he had not tried to talk to the people involved […]
[…] indefinitely, for various reasons, including: the emerging dominance of wealthy diaspora; the creeping commercial expansion of China and India; the eventual maturing of some post-Soviet and post- communist regimes; the emerging clout of some countries of the British Commonwealth; the sophistication of some organisations such as the Arab League; the expansion of the European […]
[…] to be Regulated’, The Independent 31 July 2004, p.18 10 Established under the 1950 Internal Security Act, the SISS worked closely with the FBI to ensure that Communist Party members registered themselves with the Attorney General. It also conducted Senate hearings for 27 years to ensure that the register was kept up to date. […]
[…] what the Service did. In part, this was to compensate for the image that had prevailed before. It was being portrayed as if it were run by fascist swine, which wasn’t the case.’ Much of this prevailing imagery, was, she believes, put about in the 1980s by ‘ communist sympathisers posing as conspiracy theorists’. Huh?
[…] this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that we, a conservative superpower (USSR), were […]
[…] were running students who pretended to be left-wing to attract recruiters – and presumably without success, since not a whisper of this has hitherto appeared. No more communist threat? If the MI5 brochure offers a very thing version of the organisation’s history, it does answer the question, ‘How have they responded to the end […]
[…] Gangs and Counter-Gangs in 1960. (4) After Kenya, Kitson next saw active service in Malaya. He arrived in the country in January 1957, by which time the Communist insurgency had already been effectively defeated. Only a small number of isolated guerrilla bands were still at large. He regarded the army’s methods as ‘thorough rather […]
