[…] role of J. J. Angleton in fomenting right-wing discontent with the Wilson governments points to a CIA connection with the plots to destabilise the 1964-70 and 1974-79 Labour administrations (see Peter Wright, Spycatcher: the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, New York: Viking Penguin, 1987; and Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson […]
[…] leadership which will have to tell people some pretty unpalatable truths.” Owen as the Oswald Moseley of the 1990s? The parallels are quite interesting. Both quit the Labour Party with a ‘solution’ the party as a whole wouldn’t accept; both formed a new party; both talked of ‘leadership’ and ‘unpalatable truths’. Maybe the British […]
[…] that Kelly was a ‘KGB man’. You can see how the smear went: Agee went to the KGB (or can be said to have done so); Kelly is the leader of Agee’s defence committee in London, therefore Kelly is KGB. *Phil Kelly is now a Labour Councillor in Islington and chair of its Education Committee.
[…] February that more than 11,000 injured had been through Andrews air force base in the previous nine months and the real figure was probably higher than that. Mike Small is one of an editorial group running Indymedia Scotland and is writing a book on ‘Blairusconi: the New Labour Project and the Italian Right’.
Searchlight At the beginning of the essay on the Blairites above, I discuss the concept of political contamination, the denigration of people on the left by association – real or fictitious – with ideas or people on the right. The most enthusiastic users of the contamination device in Britain today are found in Searchlight magazine. … Read more
[…] is beyond dispute that elements of the far right put up Italian political refugees, there is no evidence that this fitted into an overall euro-fascist division of labour. The German connection In February 1983 three Germans, Gottfried Hepp, Walter Kexeland Ulrich Tillman, wanted in connection with bomb attacks there, were entertained by the self-styled […]
[…] In 1963 James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter intelligence branch, following up the revelations of Anatoli Golitsyn, informed MI5 that Harold Wilson, then leader of the Labour Party, was a spy. After a few enquiries Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s boss, told John McCone, then head of the CIA, ‘There is nothing in it’. […]
[…] compile a detailed account of the Commonwealth Bilderberg’s origins in which he also suggests that the original Bilderberg had assumed a significant degree of importance to senior Labour Party figures. Philip Murphy, ‘By invitation only: Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, and the attempt to create a Commonwealth “Bilderberg Group”, 1964-66’. The Journal of Imperial and […]
[…] the Tory Party in 1979. On the British non-Trotskyist Left its origins lie in the 1975-78 period, and the ‘national security’ scares that were run against the Labour Government — the Agee-Hosenball expulsions and the Aubery, Berry and Campbell (ABC) trial for example. And these were mostly triggered by the fall-out from Watergate and […]
[…] developed in the fifties and sixties, how IRD came to circulate (and the rest of Whitehall let it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what […]
