[…] — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of ‘the communist threat’. This left revisionist thesis, specifically the wide-spread belief on the European Left that the shape of post-war unionism in Europe was largely down to the […]
[…] of Information searches and investigative journalism produced evidence that both Permindex and CMC were penetrated by the CIA and probably used for bank-rolling both operations and anti- Communist organisations overseas, especially in Europe. DiEugenio goes a step further and suggests that both could be linked to the ‘Gladio’ network set up in post-war Europe […]
[…] Times for Nixon’s ‘plumbers unit’: ‘Nixonian plumbing was a defensive response to aggression’. Ignorance masquerading as sophistication. Interesting piece about Soldier of Fortune magazine, the World Anti Communist League and General John K.Singlaub in New Statesman 2 November 1984. (The War Against ‘Communism’) The author is Chris Horrie who is, if memory serves me, […]
[…] Indonesia. ‘The bodies of the murdered generals were found in a well near the air force base of Halim (the air force had been a centre of communist influence among the military). A gruesome pogrom followed through the country as opponents of the PKI took their revenge.’ The crude attempt to imply that the […]
[…] revolutionary organizations, economic pressure groups, secret societies with hidden political agendas, and the like? No monolithic conspiracy There has never been, to be sure, a single, monolithic Communist Conspiracy of the sort postulated by the American John Birch Society in the 1950s and 1960s. Nor has there ever been an all-encompassing International Capitalist Conspiracy, […]
[…] are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures’. The speech was used to draw financial backing from Congress to Truman’s determination to support anti- Communist regimes in Greece and Turkey. These governments had been propped up by the British but the expense of the operation was by late 1946 too much […]
[…] David Phillips. Interestingly enough a similar claim was resurrected at about the same time the Clark article appeared, during the Garrison enquiry. Clare Booth Luce, ardent anti- communist and wife of Time-Life publisher, claimed that on the night of the assassination she received a call from New Orleans which informed her that Oswald had […]
[…] fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.(6) Significant if not decisive By asking for a ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence Knightley is asking for too much. Even […]
[…] and that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition. Point out also that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be generated by communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks on the critics. […]
[…] was set for the 1980 election in which the Reagan campaign took over the old John Birch Society line and denounced the Trilateral Commission as a pro- Communist conspiracy. The rest is history (and may be the last we’ll ever get.) But there’s more to the story Sanders has to tell. He traces names […]
