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The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage
[PDF file]: […] equivalents are working for their country. The murder of a British businessman who worked in China and was associated with the now disgraced Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief of Chongqing who was once tipped for high office, was characterised by systematic British media undermining of the dead man’s character (presumably because it […]
Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] Larkin. HE Lobster story begins in Edinburgh in 1948 when Ramsay was born, the eldest child of a food chemist father and housewife mother. Both parents were Communist Party members until the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, so Ramsay grew up in a bookish, lefty atmosphere which encouraged a sort of instinctive hostility […]
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac
[PDF file]: […] Furnival Jones, MI5’s Director, no previous Prime Minister had ever shown ‘such enthusiasm for regular up-to-the-minute reports during an industrial dispute’. Wilson was particularly pleased that the Communist Party headquarters was ‘comprehensively bugged’. And he actively encouraged rightwing union leaders to collaborate with MI5. One of the leading figures in the GMWU, Sir Harry […]
View from Bridge 87
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] publication focused on intelligence and parapolitics, has frequently covered the career of journalist, author, and intelligence operative Brian Crozier (1918–2012). Lobster has analyzed his role in anti- communist networks, his relationship with British intelligence (MI5/IRD) and the CIA, and his private intelligence activities. Key Connections and Coverage: • Free Agent (1993): Lobster reviewed and […]
Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson
[PDF file]: […] body Le Cercle’. Van Vuuren mentioned a Le Cercle meeting in 1984 which addressed the serious threat of infiltration of socialist parties of Europe and elsewhere by communist agents. There was talk of left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. A year and half later Palme was assassinated. But so what? Does Nicholson want us […]
Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide
[PDF file]: […] important oil supplier. They were run by generally conservative regimes which backed Britain’s anti-Soviet position in the Cold War, out of a concern that the expansion of Communist influence into the Middle East could provoke revolution and the overthrow of Mark Curtis, ‘Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocide’, Declassified UK, 20 October […]
The Lexit delusion
[PDF file]: […] the left of the Labour Party in Parliament and the constituencies, the large trade unions (notably the Transport and General Workers and the Engineering Workers) and the Communist Party. Their most articulate spokesperson was Tony Benn, Industry Secretary in Harold Wilson’s Labour government at the time. The case made by Benn and his supporters […]
Chris Hani book
[…] body Le Cercle’. Van Vuuren mentioned a Le Cercle meeting in 1984 which addressed the serious threat of infiltration of socialist parties of Europe and elsewhere by communist agents. There was talk of left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. A year and half later Palme was assassinated. But so what? Does Nicholson want us […]