[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] who subscribed to Atlanticism and were more committed to détente with the Soviet Union, and the Southwestern ‘tycoon entrepreneur’ types, who tended to be more militantly anti- communist and were more deeply embedded in the oil and armaments industries. Similar formulations were offered by Kirkpatrick Sale in his book Power Shift (1975), which looked […]
[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 […]
[…] 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,12 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur […]
[PDF file]: […] a very good 25 page paper, ‘Zersetzen: Some Precedents’.37 Of this paper Russell writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute […]
[PDF file]: […] a CIA-backed union in France in the 1940s and then for the CIA’s Radio Free Europe. In the late 1950s he began working with the reformist, anti- Communist democrat José Figueres in Costa Rica. By the early 1960s, with funding from the Parvin Foundation and another CIA conduit, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Volman […]
