On Friday 7 August I was told by a journalist at another paper that the Mail on Sunday had a story that Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson had worked for the spooks – though which branch was not clear. ‘That doesn’t surprise me,’ I said, and described Mandelson’s 1978 Foreign Office (or SIS?)-funded trip to Cuba. […]
[…] take on the Judy Bari/Earth First/FBI bombing story. Her ex-husband did it, says Martin, not the FBI. Red Star Research By far the best source on New Labour, personnel, sources of funding etc. – and getting millions of hits. http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/ AK Press The splendid AK Press have a new catalogue: requests for a copy […]
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more
[…] MPs David Owen, Stan Orme, Tony Benn, Paul Rose and Merlyn Rees; the one purporting to be Dennis Healey’s opinion of the Common Market; or the purported Labour Party election pamphlet. All of these were produced to a standard far beyond the technical or professional abilities of the Army Information Services in Northern Ireland. […]
[…] range as a reference group, thought the KGB story was a smear. Agee told us the lie we wanted to hear. (And one or two of the Labour MPs involved may have been within the Soviet orbit at the time.) Further, in the Soviet-American competition of the Cold War, to say something bad about […]
[…] like neo-nazi occasionally back-fires. In January the Sunday Express ran a piece headlined ‘Traitors: the ultra-right Tories who plotted against Major’ – a piece recycled in the Labour Party-supporting Tribune (18 February, 1994 under the predictable heading of ‘Major’s Militants’). It didn’t amount to much: a branch of the Tory Party had passed a […]
[…] eyebrows and the ears seem similar. Though Wright became a fairly run-of-the-mill, right-wing, communist-obsessed conspiracy theorist, when younger he taught in the Workers Educational Association and voted Labour in 1945. (Spycatcher pp.30 and 31) He came from the middle class, and he suffered – he thought – at the hands of incompetent prats from […]
[…] liaisons with extreme right-wing organisations outside of Asia, including American groups that formed part of the KMT’s ‘China lobby’, (144) the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN),(145) National Labour Union, or NTS, (146) and an umbrella group for Latin American ultras called the Confederacion Interamericana de Defensa del Continente (CIADC).(147) The growing cooperation which ensued […]
[…] they began launching raids on Yugoslavia. ASIO was almost a parody of the right-wing security/intelligence outfit in bed with the right. The author’s account also shows a Labour Party dimly aware of all this, making the occasional half-hearted stab at reining in ASIO, which the agency and its conservative allies easily outflanked or overturned. […]
[…] usual the UK was just part of the US PR operation, the ‘we are not alone’ factor. As has been frequently pointed out in these pages, New Labour was coopted by the US long before it took office. As for the events leading up to war, there isn’t much left to say. In the […]
