[…] in the field – doing spectacular things. And don’t believe those smears that he’s a ‘traitor’ to the land of his birth. He’s still a violently anti- Communist right-winger who firmly believes in Queen and country. He wrote Spycatcher for the simple reason that he and his wife were going broke – because those […]
[…] manner in which these conflicting structures contributed to Yugoslavia’s disintegration in the early nineties. He also scotches the notion, persistent on the right, that it was covert Communist influence within SOE (steered by James Klugman) that led the British to begin supporting Tito at the expense of Mihailovic: Tito was simply killing more Germans. […]
[…] Some are the old favourites – Aims, Adam Smith, IEA etc – but some are the more recent and obscure of them, including: Centre for Research into Communist Economics, Policy Search, the Ross McWhirter Foundation and the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism. (Illustrated is its notepaper listing – thanks to Phil Edwards […]
[…] of the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. It took some time, however, for officials […]
The Enemy Within Seamus Milne Verso, London, 1994 Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party Francis Beckett John Murray, London,1995 Seamus Milne has written a very good book, an essential book. Investigative journalism in this country is very hard to do, and Milne deserves great praise for this achievement.(1) The […]
[…] agents. It seems unhelpful to me do do this and can, in fact, cause confusion and even help those wishing to lay false trails. The Comintern ( Communist International) was set up in March 1919, as the supposed successor to the Socialist International that had collapsed with the outbreak of war in August 1914, […]
[…] suspect. In the war, he left Germany and was firstly in the Danish resistance and then the Norwegian. He was one of the leaders of a big communist network run by radio from Moscow. In the second half of the sixties, we broke most of the traffic between the communist resistance in the war […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
[…] TV ads. From the start it had particularly strong ties (through McDonald and Singlaub) with the Conservative Action Group and also (through Singlaub) with the World Anti- Communist League and its numerous affiliates. (11) In May 1985 Linda Guell came over to Britain to organise and launch Western Goals (UK). Paul Masson, then a […]
[PDF file]: This was reformatted in February 2025 Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain Robin Ramsay Since the Berlin Wall fell, the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or […]
