[…] the United States recruited many of them as “freedom fighters’, spies and saboteurs. They also describe how the Soviets were able to infiltrate many of the anti- communist organisations who were ostensibly working for Western intelligence. At the end of World War II, the American, British and French zones of Austria and Germany, as […]
[…] to deny the 1948 elections to the Communists. By 1950 the Mafia again controlled Sicily. The CIA was also paying the Corsican Mafia in Marseilles to undermine Communist influence with striking workers. These Mafia syndicates were sufficiently well-protected that in 1951 they opened their first heroin lab. By 1965 there were two dozen labs […]
[…] Cynthia Street. 6 Cynthia Street was the headquarters of Democratic Left, which had been the beneficiary of the final struggle between the hardline ‘tankies’ and the euro- communist revisionists of the old Communist Party as the latter’s limited national influence collapsed under the enormous strain of dealing with the unravelling of the Soviet Empire. […]
[…] for example, to see that: “In exposing Alger Hiss as a Soviet agent, Congressman (sic) Richard Nixon made a major contribution to the bringing home of the Communist menace and therefore to the mobilisation of popular support for an interventionist foreign policy.” (15) For a member of the Israeli lobby in 1976 when that […]
[…] to be retired to prevent further damage to the Agency. But interesting current research shows that Angleton’s politics were by no means those of the conventional anti- Communist: he appears to have been a man of convictions but these were not necessarily those of modern capitalism. These reflections derive from the work of an […]
Introduction Despite their reputation for ’empiricism’, British academics have tended to treat political power by means of abstract concepts rather than empirical information about the actions of determinate individuals and groups (e.g. Giddens, 1984, 1985; Scott, 1986). After a brief efflorescence of empirical studies of the so-called ‘Establishment’ in the early 1960s, sociologists in Britain […]
[…] the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): “Critics of a power elite theory often call it “conspiratorial”, which is the academic equivalent of ending a discussion by yelling Communist. It is difficult to lay this charge to rest once and for all because these critics really mean something much broader than the dictionary definition of […]
Brian Crozier HarperCollins, London, 1993 This is a very interesting book which greatly adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside Story, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these […]
[…] a think tank and St Antony’s College (1996-99); and fronted for New Labour via the Foreign Policy Centre (1999 onwards). He is unclear when he left the Communist Party but by 1997 he was sitting next to John Bolton at the American Enterprise Institute talking about New Labour. Prior to his recent resignation, New […]
[…] on IRD’s domestic operations takes that contention a good deal further forward. The authors tell us that in 1956 the Conservative MP Douglas Dodds-Parker, a former anti- communist ally of Labour Foreign Secretary Bevin, had been appointed to the Foreign Office as Under-Secretary – and apparently in formal charge of liaison with IRD.(2) Dodds-Parker […]
