[PDF file]: […] Cuban Project, Operation Mongoose. That project was slowly being wound down in the early months of 1963, as Kennedy pursued an overt policy of reaching accommodation with communist Cuba. The precise date that Operation Mongoose really ended is still unclear. Judging by Kennedy’s change of course on improving relations with Cuba, it probably began […]
[PDF file]: […] likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of the ‘official’ history of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), Endgames and New Times. In his new biography of James Klugmann, one of the Party’s leading intellectuals, he shows beyond any […]
[PDF file]: […] focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote that the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)’s ‘Reuben Falber……had recently been made cashier of the Russian funds.’ Wright tells us that MI5 planned to burgle Falber’s flat in […]
[PDF file]: […] Adventurism’ in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 12, no. 3, 2009, pp. 389–427. JSTOR, .(Free sign-up required) 9 3 because all parts of the machine, in every communist nation, shared a clear ideology and therefore precisely the same dogma-dictated views of world events. It led Jackson to a very cynical idea of western freedom. […]
[PDF file]: […] recently declassified files reveal.’ 1 That unit was a hitherto barely known branch of the Information Research Department (IRD). In 1951, a secret group named the Anti- Communist (Home) Committee was established, comprising representatives from the Foreign Office, Treasury, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour, and Security Service (MI5). Chaired by cabinet […]
[PDF file]: […] ascendant. This was also true in Britain – the U.S.’s partner in the post-war arrangements. The most important problem the U.S. had was in the U.K.(53) The Communist ‘threat’ A substantial section of the British secret state and its allies in the Conservative Party, business and the media believed, or found it useful to […]
[PDF file]: […] Fasts imprisoned for a political stand. Nevertheless, despite the absence of any Red Scare, extensive surveillance still took place. Smith discusses MI5 policy with regard to the Communist Party in the mid-1930s: ‘….all aspects of the policy of the CPGB were being “carefully followed up”, while routine checks on correspondence were maintained on selected […]
[PDF file]: […] and ‘Negroes’. Rather indiscreetly, Belmont blew Sullivan’s coverstory for the dossier. What Sullivan had actually created was a ‘dirt sheet’, intended to paint Dr King as a communist subversive intent on undermining the USA. In the extract below you can see that Belmont also remarked that Attorney-General Robert F Kennedy was going to be […]
[PDF file]: […] writer in the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up at the onset of the Cold War to counter Soviet Communist Bloc propaganda, by monitoring, conducting research and providing unattributable briefings to journalists and others. 3. By the time I joined, IRD’s terms of reference had widened […]
[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]
