[…] of the East German Stasi files to the CIA (just to stick it to the Germans one last time), it turned out that at any time, the Communist Bloc had some 200,000 spies in Western countries. These files showed that the USAF had been hopelessly infiltrated by communists in the 1950s and 1960s. The […]
[…] 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham […]
[PDF file]: […] media to create a popular image of most wanted criminals and the need for G-men to capture or kill them. The twin threats of spectacular criminals and communist subversives fed the FBI director’s greed for power over what became a kind of federal secret police. At almost the same time, Harry Anslinger, previously an […]
[…] long before his death. A scathing review of his 1956 book Pan-Africanism or Communism? described it as “infuriating”; it classified Padmore among those “who have revolted against Communist conduct and cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael […]
[PDF file]: […] later in the 1930s. He argues that Jenks’ own hatred of Jews was simply a radicalisation of common, mainstream prejudices against Jews as rapacious capitalists, criminals or Communist subversives. Jenks himself had little interest in the issue, and discussed the matter in depth on only one occasion, in his book Spring Comes Again of […]
[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 […]
[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.18 […]
[…] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]
[PDF file]: […] et de Contre-Espionnage. Following the WUCC meetings Colonel Mercier was posted to Berne, Switzerland, in 1952, under cover as Commercial Attaché. Whilst there, he ran operations against Communist North African Nationalists who were seeking asylum in Switzerland. Mercier collaborated with Swiss Federal Police (contrary to Swiss law). In late March 1957 his contact in […]
[PDF file]: […] fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.6 Significant if not decisive By asking for a ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence, Knightley is asking for too much. Even […]
