Introduction The ‘Gable memo’ reproduced below originally appeared as the subject matter of a long and extremely interesting article, ‘Destabilising the “decent people”‘ by Nick Anning, Duncan Campbell and Bruce Page in the New Statesman on February 15, 1980. This is still worth digging out, particularly for its detailed account of the context in which … Read more
[…] full access to its material, little of this was broadcast. Instead we get a lot of huffing and puffing about ‘Trotskyists’. This came, though, from an elderly Communist Party member, rather than anyone in mainstream politics. Ware says, ‘…. ten years ago, black parents warned that schools were failing their children….’ (i.e. in 1977 […]
[…] veteran Belfast reporters, which had omitted to inform his London colleague that McDowell’s imagination had already reinforced the Provisional IRA with cadres of Vietcong, Czechoslovakians, Lithuanians and Communist Frenchmen.’ Dowling understood, had correctly ‘read’ some of the Information Policy operations. Other ‘Irish hands’ certainly knew of the unit. Why have none of them come […]
[PDF file]: […] Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and IRIS appeared in Lobster 19; much of the discussion of the ‘ communist threat’ in Lobster 24; some sections on the Gaitskellites and the Congress for Cultural Freedom appeared in Smear!; and a little piece on the post WW1 […]
[PDF file]: […] Department (IRD).(4) IRD had grown from its origins in the 1940s to employ hundreds of people and spend nearly £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti- Communist propaganda. (5) The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features (FWF), began setting […]
[PDF file]: […] month later, on 14 September, the Warren Commission stated that Oswald and his unit sailed into the South China Sea during a major crisis between Taiwan and Communist China. On 30 September, his unit set up base at P’ing-tung in North Taiwan. The unit then returned to Atsugi on 5 October. Oswald next spent […]
[PDF file]: […] United Nations action. The Koreans living in the North, separated by US fiat from the rest of their country, including families, were decreed en masse to be communist non-persons and white Americans had been urged to fanatical hatred of communists, especially as non-Americans, the extermination of which became a self-evident and holy cause. Fantasy […]
[PDF file]: […] in the murder vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not arrested or brought to trial and shortly after a leading anti- Communist informant for the FBI claimed to have learnt that the Communist Party was In fact three assassins were apprehended and served token sentences. The ringleader, Michael […]
[PDF file]: […] the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by many in the US as a Communist sympathiser – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of […]
[PDF file]: […] suspect. 13 4 the Monday Club’s Journal, Monday World. As head of the British League for European Freedom Martin became the U.K. delegate to the World Anti Communist League (WACL). The parallels between the anti-semitic/neo-fascist activities in the U.K. and those in Australia are strikingly demonstrated in Dennis Freney’s Nazis Out of Uniform: Dangers […]
