Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
[…] judged by outsiders Crozier has initiated with his group the project ‘Victory for Strauss’ using the tactics applied in Great Britain, of major themes such as the communist, extremist subversion of government parties and trade unions, KGB manipulation of terrorism and damage to internal security. The future form of the project will be left […]
[…] stories about how he got into trouble for delivering guns to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua during the late 1970s. Once upon a time, the stories continued, the Communist Party invited him to join. But Ace turned them down ‘because they were too conservative.’ Ace was bright and articulate, in a gruff sort of way. […]
[…] which had been established by the Federation of British Industries, the Mineowners’ Association and the Shipbuilding Employers Federation the previous year to monitor – and counter – ‘Communist subversion’ in British industry. Sir George Makgill, Honorary Secretary of the British Empire Producers Organisation and Secretary of the British Empire Union, was employed as the […]
[…] with the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department, MI5’s agents were encouraged to disrupt subversive organisations, even impregnating lavatory paper with an itching substance at halls hired by communist organisations.’ This is the first time such operations have been acknowledged. When this stopped and what it amounted to we do not know. (Presumably such operations […]
[…] greatest importance that these actions should be increased and become nation-wide occurrences.’ Bessie Braddock assured the reader that this ‘bears all the distinctive marks of a genuine Communist directive’. Although it is difficult to parody the Stalinist mind, I doubt that even the Cominform would actually have written that ‘new and concentrated effort must […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a tour of duty in Europe, returned to South Vietnam in 1954 as an aide to the above-mentioned Ed Lansdale, to help organize the CIA’s secret anti- communist forces in North Vietnam. As a measure of his knack for deceit and deception, it is worth noting that one of Conein’s favorite ‘dirty tricks’ was […]
[…] a degree of scoffing by certain members of the literati at A. N. Wilson’s passing mention in his recent memoir that Iris Murdoch fed ‘information’ to the Communist Party when she worked at The Treasury in the early 1940s. The late Dame’s widower, John Bayley, has backed up the claim up to some extent. […]
[…] state police affidavits justifying a raid on a West Philadelphia warehouse used by convention protesters, troopers alleged that communists were behind the demonstrations. “Funds allegedly originate with Communist and leftist parties and from sympathetic trade unions”, the state police declared in the affidavits. Other funds reportedly come from the former Soviet-allied World Federation of […]
