[PDF file]: […] used aerial bombardment in their post-1945 colonial wars. How effective was it? In Malaya, the RAF dropped 35,000 tons of bombs and claimed to have killed 700 Communist guerrillas. This number of fatalities was almost certainly inflated, but even so this means that it took 5 tons of bombs to kill one guerrilla. The […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] of the man, his work and his impact. He has also edited a number of books on Irving Howe and has written widely on East Germany under Communist rule and other subjects. Over the years I have learned a great deal from his writing. Consequently I was looking forward to the publication of Of […]
[PDF file]: […] this point, actually announced when Radio Atlanta started broadcasting in May 1964, that it was intended to be ‘the last bastion of freedom if the country went Communist.’ This could only have been an allusion to the possibility that the general election that was due in late 1964 would result in a Labour government […]
[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: […]
[PDF file]: […] this penetration see, for example, false flags to deliver the material. This is also a case study of the US response to economic nationalism. Fidel was no communist when he arrived. Castro offered reasonable compensation for the US-owned assets he wanted to nationalise but the Americans refused to consider that. Instead they began economic […]
[…] 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, […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
