[…] et al never produced any evidence – hence the necessity of the novel, perhaps. At the Progreso site the page ‘About us’ includes an interview with Ricardo Alarcon de Quesda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the National Assembly of the People’s Power.
[…] 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 […]
[…] much point, therefore, in speculation on a suggestion that has sometimes been made — that, during the period of the Cold War, MRA’s services to the anti- Communist cause have been recognised by subsidies from official but secret, agencies in the United States or elsewhere.’ MRA certainly looks like an American operation after the […]
[…] ‘was a philandering drunk whose career was destined to be curtailed by the knowledge, acquired secretly by MI5, that he had once been a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.’ (p. 557, emphasis added). Oh really? We are told (p. 542) that Peter Wright’s ‘initiation into molehunting’ was in May 1963, while […]
[…] many with horrific cruelty, even by the standards of the time. He successfully avoided any post-war difficulties, eventually arriving in New York as a bona fide anti- Communist in July 1951. Here, in less than a year, he achieved the remarkable feat of becoming not only a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church, but […]
[…] Serb nationalist thugs were to blame for massacring civilians in Bosnia? Indeed the same. But wasn’t that lady a member of the central committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and specifically, secretary of its front Campaign Against Militarism? So we understand. I have been told that the status of ‘research associate’ is only honorary, […]
[…] they were the Round Table. The ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (15) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the […]
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12 Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more
[…] decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to support their conspiracy theories about the ‘ communist menace’. The very idea of attempting ‘the politics of the CIA’, let alone getting as close as Perry has done to actually bringing it off, is […]
[…] of the time. Kennedy, it should not be entirely forgotten, followed Eisenhower/Dulles. Think of all those brave ventures designed to show the world the liberal-progressive (if anti- communist) face of American imperialism: the Alliance for Progress; treaties with the Soviets; and ‘opening to the left in Italy’; the Peace Corps. Interesting moves. Futile in […]
