[…] Sadat that he would have the full backing of the Saudi royal family if he leaned towards the US. As a result, Sadat became ‘as staunchly anti- communist as the Shah and the Saudis’.6 Midolo wanted to ask Prince Turki about ‘the so-called Safari Club, a coalition of foreign intelligence services based in Cairo […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has just been forgotten. The Soviet ‘threat’ in the post-war years was […]
[…] lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable though this may have been to anyone who had contact with the CPGB,30 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur […]
[PDF file]: […] of JFK’s sexual partners in the 1960s, may have increased Meyer’s animus.24 Despite having ended WW2 as a liberal internationalist, Meyer became an obsessive, even paranoid anti- communist and may have persuaded himself that JFK was a threat to the Republic.25 In his hand-written sketch of the conspiracy E. Howard Hunt began it with: […]
[…] just more of the same. Similar – and more serious – 51 52 Just one example: . charges were made against Bill Clinton. That Clinton was a communist. In fact there are reasonably good reports that he was recruited by the CIA, while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, to report on American students in […]
[…] essay I glanced at, US Army officer Michael Ferguson’s short piece ‘The Evolution of Disinformation: How Public Opinion Became Proxy’.69 (Proxy?) Ferguson reminds his readers that the Communist International ran propaganda against the West and that the KGB created the theory that AIDS was a virus engineered by the US military. But Ferguson doesn’t […]
[PDF file]: […] Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (Costa Mesa, CA: The Noontide Press, 1962), pp. 421-22 15 in capitalist England not significantly better than, say, life in Communist Hungary? Did West Germany build a wall to keep its people from crossing over to East Germany? Were millions of Germans wrong to flee West at […]
[PDF file]: […] because the older Dulles brother dies two-thirds of the way through the book. But he gamely calls Allen to his bedside in order to deliver rousing anti- communist words, urging his brother to not only keep up the fight but redouble his soon-to-be-solo efforts. From Allen’s furtive scuttlings around post-war Europe, David Talbot (former […]
[PDF file]: […] NAT. Socialist Bulletin. Frewin cites an appendix in my book Dreamer of the Day showing that Oswald clearly derived his information from a story in the American Communist Party paper The Worker.2 The article in question was penned by ‘Mike Newberry’, who frequently wrote about the far right.3 In June 1961, for example, Newberry […]
