[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] there were some comments of the former British Leyland boss Michael Edwardes who described going to the Cabinet Office to read the minutes of meetings between ‘the Communist Party and our shop stewards……..It was absolutely clear – the intention was to break the company…….bring the company down, bring the country down.’ This didn’t sound […]
[…] he became Director of Mind in 1973, an anonymous document was circulated to some of the charity’s most eminent supporters alleging that Smythe was some kind of communist agent. I wrote to Mr Smythe who kindly supplied me with part of the document. The document looks like a pretty obvious bit of state (IRD?) […]
[…] all critics of their defence policies as puppets of the Kremlin.’ (p. 3) Wilford shows that the relationships between the state and non-state forces in the anti- communist world of the early post-war years were more complex than simply the CIA running things, calling the tune. Had his text not been framed as a […]
[…] irresponsible acts”. Prewett called this “an all-time low in pronouncement of US foreign policy”, and mocked the notion that “unless we stop the Alpha 66 raids against Communist Cuba, there’ll be nuclear conflict.” Three weeks later, after President Kennedy ordered strong measures against would-be exile raiders, Prewett rushed to support the exile leadership and […]
[…] peace flight to Britain, six weeks before the Germans invaded Russia. Yet outside the pilots’ log books there exists no official record of their mission. In post-war Communist Czechoslovakia, many ex-RAF pilots were picked by the STB secret police and jailed or drafted down the mines. Stories of their exploits could not be published. […]
