Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] involved Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian publisher go-between who was secretly a KGB agent and who stole the huge sum of money (some $3m by today’s value) that Iraqi intelligence paid into a Hong Kong bank account. The KGB […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] Soviets were also funding communist parties around the world — including the Communist Party of Great Britain. There really was ‘Moscow Gold’ in there after all, and KGB gold at that. Confirmation of this at the British end came from senior party figure Reuben Falber, who looked after the Community Party of Great Britain […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

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[…] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

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[…] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

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[…] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

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[…] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Times followed their tiny ‘scoop‘ with a version of three other familiar ‘British conspiracy theories’, as they put it, about Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell, his predecessor as leader of the Labour Party. It claims that Gaitskell, a […]

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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.22 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written or 21 22 Extracts are at . 7 by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.23 […]

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