[…] wars be connected? The final thing worth noting about the McCord memo is his reference to the parallels between the situation in the US and that in Nazi Germany. His meaning is quite specific; yet Hougan, quoting a very similar letter from McCord to General Paul Gaynor, asks “Nazi Germany? What is McCord talking […]
Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more
From: Mal Function In Tim Pendry’s ‘Fifth Column’ in the Lobster 49, he wrote ‘no-one seems yet to have written the tale of how this post-war generation passed on its passions, beliefs and networks to the Reagan generation’. (page 4) In fact Russ Bellant did in his Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican … Read more
[…] Anslinger and George White — to modify human perception and behaviour through chemical means. Their ‘medicine cabinet’ included scopolamine, peyote, barbiturates, mescaline and marijuhana. Simultaneously, the notorious Nazi doctors at Dachau experimented with mescaline as a means of eliminating the victim’s will to resist. Jews, slavs, gypsies and other untermenschen in the camp were […]
[…] enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number 36) contains a grim but well researched piece by John Kelly about postwar CIA collaboration with Nazi doctors in radiation experiments in the US, and much other stuff of interest. Despite its frequent typos, Unclassified is a very valuable resource. . Honey, I […]
[…] and his importance to post-war fascism, by painstakingly retracing his footsteps through the murky world of his work for Henry Ford’s Michigan strike breakers; the German-American Bund; Nazi sabotage networks; turbulent relationships with Mosley and Gerald L.K. Smith; the post-war fascist international and its intersection with Western intelligence; KGB, Soviet diplomats; Stalinist artists; white […]
[…] I have no access to German sources and would welcome additional information which would flesh out this skeletal account. During the thirties Brandt was a resilient anti- nazi activist, a member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) which sought to develop a popular front of all left-wing forces. Brandt’s enemies later “portrayed him as […]
[…] would have been briefed with the same Searchlight rubbish as the Jewish Chronicle was unfounded. Indeed, Honigsbaum was scornful of Searchlight’s past role in playing up the nazi group Combat 18. The Searchlight smears reached Radio 4’s Sally Hardcastle who had contacted Open Eye, and it took a long meeting to get across to […]
A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – more … Read more
[…] of Western Values and Civilization in Southern Africa’. He also attended a ‘select’ dinner in Whitehall for ‘Conservative Parliamentarians, Parliamentary candidates, councillors and party officials’. (The neo- nazi historian David Irving was spotted in the Houses of Parliament just before the Lords meeting, and also that night at a Monday Club Foreign Affairs Committee […]
