[…] of the SAS who turned the tide. This is nonsense. Given that the majority Malay population was firmly enlisted on the British side in the conflict, a Communist victory was never likely in Malaya. The decisive part in the defeat of the insurgency was actually played by the Briggs Plan and the commitment of […]
[…] a hard nut to crack and the KGB was a ruthless opponent. There was little doubt as to the immediate post-war Soviet aim of bringing Austria under Communist control. After the 1947 crackdown in Romania and Hungary, the main KGB staff were transferred to the Russian HQ at Baden-bei-Wien, the scene of Prince Orlovsky’s […]
[…] Left, the Temple went out of its way to forge alliances with leaders of those same organizations: e.g. with the Black Panthers’ Huey Newton and with the Communist Party’s Angela Davis. Yet, despite these associations, and its ultra-left orientation, we are told that the Temple was not a target of investigation by either intelligence […]
[…] into children at summer camp, attempted behaviour modification on inmates at California’s Vacaville prison and collected powerful toxins from Amazon tribes. Terminal experiments were carried out on Communist defectors who were suspected of being double agents. Mind control proved a fantasy, but academic research on sensory deprivation opened the possibility of a revolution in […]
[…] by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who made his living as a travelling preacher. One night, while lying in bed fretting about socialists, Wobblies, and a Swedish Communist who, he was sure, planned to bring Seattle under the control of Moscow, Vereide received a visitation: a voice, and a light in the dark, bright […]
[…] Gordon and Morgan-Witts, Max Pontiff, Grenada, London 1983 Whale, John The Pope From Poland, Collins, London 1980 General Books on the Italian Political Scene Amyot G. Italian Communist Party, Croom Helm, London 1981 Davidson, A Theory and Practice of Italian Communism, Merlin, London 1982 Earle J. Italy in the 1970s, David and Charles, Newton […]
[…] approved by Searchlight, is allowed to talk to the nationalist /fascist fringe. You’d never guess that messers Gable and Atkinson of Searchlight were once employed by the Communist Party of Great Britain, would you? RR 2. Searchlight – an appreciation If Searchlight seriously wanted fascist activity to decline one might expect it to attempt […]
[…] 28 January 1973) At various times the UCA were said to have been in discussions with the Peoples’ Democracy group, the Official IRA, the British and Irish Communist Group and the Communist Party. The truth of these reports is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The […]
[…] directors of the Rome World Trade Centre (Centro Mondiale Commerciale – aka CMC); that CMC was used as a conduit by the CIA for subsidies to anti- Communist groups; that CMC had links with the Italian Fascists; that CMC was affiliated with Permindex (Permanent Industrial Exhibitions); that Permindex had been expelled from Switzerland because […]
[…] Soviet regime. What had previously been a side-show of the IRD’s attempts to combat communism in the free world, was now the central tenet of British anti- communist propaganda policy.’ (p. 239) This books tells us the story we might have guessed in outline (had we given it some thought). There are no surprises. […]
