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The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

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[PDF file]: […] deeply ingrained and taken for granted that it was never called into question and thus seldom given overt expression. Indeed, once in Albania and working with the Communist resistance, he quite happily dressed like a partisan wearing a cap with a red star and giving ‘the communist salute to whomever I meet’. (p. 191) […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

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[PDF file]: […] at the Hague notwithstanding, go back many decades and indeed were supported by the USA when they were pursued by the Nationalist Chinese government prior to the Communist takeover in 1949.12 The expansion of Chinese naval power in the region is designed to deter the US, which has assembled and deployed a formidable maritime […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.13 In one of their earliest cases, Williams hired Maheu to investigate a politically charged murder case involving U.S. intelligence agents and communist partisans in World War II Italy, involving $100 million in lost Allied gold. The case, which had major political implications in Italy, interested the CIA deeply. […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s anti-Soviet propaganda organisation IRD could be cited in the defence of the Soviet Union. IRD manufactured disinformation about the Soviet Union and ‘the communist threat’. A recent article on the organisation, based on recently declassified files, begins with this: The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, […]

[PDF file]: […] from Amazon and all good bookshops. 34 11 could be cited in the defence of the Soviet Union. IRD manufactured disinformation about the Soviet Union and ‘the communist threat’. A recent article on the organisation, based on recently declassified files, begins with this: The British government ran a secret “black propaganda” campaign for decades, […]

Misc reviews

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Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we might call the British way of life. The survival of the CPGB […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] the USSR launch its own initiatives for a new international order, designed to bring lasting world peace and prosperity. In 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, proposed a ‘common European home’. This replaced the ‘Two Camps’ doctrine, 2 which held that the world was divided into socialist […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his membership last year” or something like that.’ And Robinson would be liaising with MI5 to access its files. In the same essay, Saunders wrote of the Communist Party of Great Britain: ‘In the international communist movement, the British party was a laughing stock, correctly assumed to be so 11 Script at . thoroughly […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

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[PDF file]: […] £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP having ‘an influence within the trade union movement vastly out of proportion […]

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