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Der Spiegel-Confirmation from the East by Brian Crozier 1993
"Der Spiegel: Confirmation from the East" Counter Culture Contribution by Brian Crozier I WELCOME Sir James Goldsmith's offer of hospitality in the pages of COUNTER CULTURE to bring fresh news on a struggle in which we were both involved. On the attacking side was Herr Rudolf Augstein, publisher of the German news magazine, Der Spiegel; on the defending side was Jimmy. My own involvement was twofold: I provided him with the explosive information that drew fire from Augstein, and I co-ordinated a truly massive international research campaign that caused Augstein, nearly four years later, to call off his libel suit against Jimmy.1 History moves fast these days. The collapse of communism in the ex-Soviet Union and eastern Europe has loosened tongues and opened archives. The struggle I mentioned took place between January 1981 and October 1984. The past two years have brought revelations and confessions that further vindicate the line we took a decade ago. What did Jimmy Goldsmith say, in 1981, that roused Augstein to take legal action? The Media Committee of the House of Commons had invited Sir James to deliver an address on 'Subversion in the Media'. Having read a reference to the 'Spiegel affair' of 1962 in an interview with the late Franz Josef Strauss in his own news magazine of that period, NOW!, he wanted to know more. I was the interviewer. Today's readers, even in Germany, may not automatically react to the sight or sound of the' Spiegel affair', but in its day, this was a major political scandal, which seriously damaged the political career of Franz Josef Strauss, the then West German Defence Minister. -
British Anti-Communist Propaganda and Cooperation with the United States, 1945-1951. Andrew Defty
British anti-communist propaganda and cooperation with the United States, 1945-1951. Andrew Defty European Studies Research Institute School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History University of Salford Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, January 2002 British anti-communist propaganda and cooperation with the United States, 1945-1951 Contents Acknowledgements................................................................................................. .......ii Abbreviations.................................................................................................................iii Abstract..........................................................................................................................iv Introduction....................................................................................................................! Chapter 1 The Origins of Britain's anti-communist propaganda policy 1945-1947.............................28 Chapter 2 Launching the new propaganda policy, 1948.....................................................................74 Chapter 3 Building a concerted counter-offensive: cooperation with other powers, 1948-1950 ........123 Chapter 4 'Close and continuous liaison': British and American cooperation, 1950-1951 .................162 Conclusion .....................................................................................................................216 Notes Introduction .........................................................................................................226 -
The Authorised History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew (Book Review)
Lobster 58 The Defence of the Realm The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew Page 134 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 London: Allen Lane, 2009, £30 Covering the same area as the Hennessy/Thomas book but with access to more recent MI5 documents, Andrew does at least refer to the dissenters named in the preceding paragraph. This is a thousand pages long and will be of major interest to academic students of British intelligence and political history for years to come. Discounted from sellers like Amazon, this is a seriously good buy. But I’m not an academic and my interests are political. I looked initially at two areas: what it said about MI5’s relationship with the British left since WW2, and particularly the role of the CPGB in British politics; and the so-called Wilson plots. Let’s take the left first. Elsewhere in this issue is my contribution to the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom’s book on the 1984 miners’ strike. In that I repeat for the umpteenth time Peter Wright’s story in Spycatcher that MI5 knew about the covert Soviet funding of the CPGB in the 1950s and neither exposed it nor tried to stop it. Wright is rubbished repeatedly by Andrew and he does not refer to this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two members of the Party’s International Department, Eileen Palmer and Bob Stewart, from the north London address of two ex-trainees of the Moscow Radio School.’ This isn’t dated but from the context it is the early 1950s. -
Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence
Russia • Military / Security Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, No. 5 PRINGLE At its peak, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) was the largest HISTORICAL secret police and espionage organization in the world. It became so influential DICTIONARY OF in Soviet politics that several of its directors moved on to become premiers of the Soviet Union. In fact, Russian president Vladimir V. Putin is a former head of the KGB. The GRU (Glavnoe Razvedvitelnoe Upravleniye) is the principal intelligence unit of the Russian armed forces, having been established in 1920 by Leon Trotsky during the Russian civil war. It was the first subordinate to the KGB, and although the KGB broke up with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the GRU remains intact, cohesive, highly efficient, and with far greater resources than its civilian counterparts. & The KGB and GRU are just two of the many Russian and Soviet intelli- gence agencies covered in Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence. Through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries, a clear picture of this subject is presented. Entries also cover Russian and Soviet leaders, leading intelligence and security officers, the Lenin and Stalin purges, the gulag, and noted espionage cases. INTELLIGENCE Robert W. Pringle is a former foreign service officer and intelligence analyst RUSSIAN with a lifelong interest in Russian security. He has served as a diplomat and intelligence professional in Africa, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. For orders and information please contact the publisher && SOVIET Scarecrow Press, Inc. -
Active Measures: the Secret History of Disinformation & Political
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation & Political Warfare | Thomas Rid Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, May 25th, 2020 however, is to change it. — Karl Marx INTRODUCTION Thomas Rid is Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Rid’s latest book, Active Measures, a startling history of disinformation, was published in late April 2020 with Farrar, Straus and Giroux (also in Russian, Japanese, Polish). His most recent book, Rise of the Machines (2016), tells the sweeping story of how cybernetics, a late- 1940s theory of machines, came to incite anarchy and war (also in Chinese, Russian, German, Japanese, Turkish). His 2015 article “Attributing Cyber Attacks” was designed to explain, guide, and improve the identification of network breaches (Journal of Strategic Studies 2015). In 2013 he published the widely-read book Cyber War Will Not Take Place. Rid’s Ph.D. thesis, “War and Media Operations: The US Military and the Press from Vietnam to Iraq,” was the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military public affairs management since Vietnam. Rid testified on information security in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as well as in the German Bundestag and the UK Parliament. From 2011 to 2016, Rid was a professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Between 2003 and 2010, he worked at major think tanks in Berlin, Paris, Jerusalem, and Washington, DC. Rid holds a PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin. -
The Soviet Union and the British General Strike of 1926 Alastair Kocho-Williams University of the West of England, Bristol [email protected]
The Soviet Union and the British General Strike of 1926 Alastair Kocho-Williams University of the West of England, Bristol [email protected] This paper addresses the Soviet analysis and response to the British General Strike of 1926 in the light of newly available documents. The recently discovered and published stenograms of Politburo meetings provide new information concerning Soviet politics and the political process. Previously, scholars have had only Soviet official documents and protocols of Politburo meetings, which only detail participants with a brief summary of decisions (vypuski) along with who received these summaries.1 From the protocols, and other sources, scholars were aware that verbatim stenograms existed, some of which were published and distributed to Central Committee members and other party leaders with instructions for them to be returned after they had been read.2 Amongst the ‘lost Politburo stenograms’ is the record of a lengthy, heated, discussion of the ‘lessons of the British General Strike’ on 3 June 1926.3 It is this that the current paper is chiefly concerned with, detailing the Soviet stance towards the General Strike, inconsistency in the Soviet analysis, the extent to which Soviet internal politics was linked to foreign policy, how as senior figures disagreed factions developed around divisions in policy, and the way in which the handling of the international situation formed a strand of the opposition to Stalin and the Politburo majority in 1926.4 The British General Strike ran from 4-12 May 1926. Although it drew British industry to a halt, and hadn’t been planned much in advance, there had been ample warning of a coming labour dispute, of which the British and Soviet Governments were well aware, although the Soviets had concluded that major action was unlikely I am grateful to Paul Gregory and Alexander Vatlin for their assistance in the writing of this paper. -
DIAGNOSIS by Regina E. Herzlinger What, Precisely, Is Wrong with the American Health-Care System?
2009_5_25UPC.qxp 5/5/2009 5:45 PM Page 1 May 25, 2009 49145 $3.95 JACK Special Health-Care Issue KEMP, R.I.P. The Doctor Will See You . Eventually MICHAEL F. CANNON JAMES C. CAPRETTA $3.95 JOHN C. GOODMAN REGINA E. HERZLINGER 21 RAMESH PONNURU 0 74851 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base.qxp 5/5/2009 8:35 PM Page 1 Our way out of the energy fix: an energy mix. It’s going to take a combination of hydrocarbons, low carbons and energy efficiency to build a more secure and sustainable energy future. As the largest contributor to U.S. energy development, BP has invested over $40 billion inthe last 5 years in oil and gas, aswell as alternatives like wind, solar and biofuels. For example, BP is working with Verenium to accelerate the development of advanced biofuelsfor U.S. motorists. Learn more about America’s most diverse energy portfolio at bp.com/us. beyond p etroleum® © 2009 BP Products North America Inc. toc.qxp 5/6/2009 12:45 PM Page 1 Contents MAY 25, 2009 | VOLUME LXI, NO. 9 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Diagnosis Page 26 It is critical that we fully understand the health-care problems we are trying to address—before we act. Amir Taheri on Iran . p. 38 Health care accounts for roughly one-sixth of the BOOKS, ARTS nation’s economic output, & MANNERS and political intervention in this sensitive sector will 44 IS THERE AN inevitably be accompanied AMERICAN MIND? Allen C. Guelzo challenges the by unintended consequences idea of American mindlessness. -
Cold Warrior Crozier Oataiis Soviet Terror
Cold Warrior Crozier epsonal Bio Oataiis Soviet Terror Text by James P. Lucier/Photograph by Rick Kozak Brian Crozier has written a massive account of the evils of communism, from its inception under Karl Manx and Valdimir Lenin to its eventual demise on Miidiaii Gorbachev's watch. Brian Crozier has been one of the waj James Burnham s The Machiavel most distinguished chroniclers of lians, Defenders ofFreedom. Many years Brian CpozIbp: The scholar humanaffairs ofthe second halfof later he was to become Bumham's suc as foreign correspondent the 20th century. Born in Australia, he cessor at National Review, carrying on anddefender ofthe West. became a dailyjournalistin Great Britain "The Pwtracted Conflict" columnfor 18 and later returned to his homeland to years. Born: Australia, 1918. workfor the Sydney Morning Herald, His new book. The Rise and Fall ofthe Brought up bilingually in eventuallyplunging intoforeign affairs Soviet Empire, is a massively docu France and England. coveringthe insurrection in Malaysiafor mented account of the reign of terror, Reuters and the Indochina War from both in the Soviet Union andabroad. Also Career: Stoke-on-Trent City Saigon. Crozier edited the confidential a painter and a musician, Crozier is Times', Hampstead News\ World Reportfor The Economist, start looking forward to a forthcoming per London News-Chivnicle; ed the Institute for the formance ofa suite of Sydney Morning Herald; Study of Conflict in Lon his piano works. foreign correspondent for don and, in the lateseven- a Insight: You began Reuters and The Economist, ties and eighties, orga- 6nin your account of the editor, WorldReport, com nized aprivate intelligence mentator for the BBC; agency to counteract dis- ^wanted^ Lemn. -
Zinoviev Letter
rS8 The Political Police in Britain and more sensitive role now being undertaken by MI5 in industry and socialist movements. Its work now 'called for new techniques and, above all, for a new type of agenr who could infiltrate among rhe workers without arousing suspicion.'16 On several occasions prior to this the Special Branch and MI5 had come under attack in parliament. This usually occurred when the an- nual Secret Service Vote for 'the foreign and other secret services' came up for consideration. In rgrS the sum agreed to was €46,84o; in r9r8-r9 it was €r,r5o,ooo and in rgrgF?o some €4oo,ooo. In Decem- ber rgrg a supplemenary sum of €2oo,ooo was agreed by parliament, and one MP took the opportupity to ask a question. Mr A. Short: Apart from the use of that service as a diplomaric weapon, there was a growing volume of opinion, particularly among the organised working class, that the fund was being used fbr purposes alien to its usual purposes. Mr Baldwin replied: He had no knowledge of theway inwhich the money was sPent.r? And again in May lgto the Chancellor, Mr Chamberlain, declined to give details of the Secret Service Vote. Captain Benn: asked if the Secret Service had not in retent years altered lrom being a purely military service to being a political service. Mr Chamberlain: said he was not aware ofany such change; but ifhe were to answer even harmless questions, the service would cease to besecret...r8 On 8 October lg?4 the 12[6rrr government was defeated in the I{ouse of Commons because of its withdrawal o[ the prosecurion againstJohn Campbell, the acting editor of the Communist Partyjour- nal, Worhers Weeh$. -
International Terrorism >'; / ~'
If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS.gov. TER~\PRISTIC AC.TIVITY-) International Terrorism >'; / ~' BEFORE THE ,~'!, : "'< SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE AD})!IINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY AOT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS " i 0]' THE J COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION t l 1 '-..::) PART 4 " r I MAY 14, 1975 - t "" \ Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary (S J. f u.s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE If) WASHINGTON : 1975 ale by the Supurlntendent or Documents, U.S. Government I'rluting Office '~1.- Washington, D.C. 2(H02· Prico $1.20 ~,¢ ",.IJ ----------,:!'-.------------.pe:-------------------~----------....,.---...,-------------- -----~ ---~ ----~- COMMITTEE;ON THE JUDICIARX ~ .. ~ JA1v1ES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman JOHN,L.lIfCOLELLAN, Arknnsus ROMAN L. HRUSKA,NebrasKa PlIILIP A.lIART, Michigan :Ej:IRAM L. FONo-, lIawnll EDWARD l\I. KENNEDY, lIfassachnsetts lIUOli SCOTT, Pennsylvania BIROliBAYlI,lndlone., . , STROIlITllVRMO))/D, South, (jarollnn QUENTIN N. B URDWK, North Dakotil CHARLES .1ireO. ¥A'I'HrAS, ,JR.,; 1\1'nt'Yland ROBERT O. BYRD, West Virginia WILLIAi\f L. SCQTT, Vlrglnlii CONTENTS JOliNI'. TUNNEY, California . Testimony of: JAMES ABOUREZK, SOUt11 D.~kota Mr.London, Brian Crozier,England director ___________________________________________ of the Institute for the Study of Conflict, _ Page 179 Hon. Robert A. Feurey) Special Assistant to the Secretary of l:ltate, Coordinator for Combatting Terrorism, Department of State, SUBCOMMITTEE To INVESTIGATE THE Am.iulISTRATION OF THE INTERN,\L accompanied by lVl!:. Louis Fields and ;dr. John N. Gatch, Deputy __ 212 Appendix ________________ '________________ ~ _______________________ _ SECURa'y ACT ANn OTHE:J;li INT,E::aNA;L SECURITY LAWS 253 JA?>ms o. -
Free Agent: the Unseen War, 1941-1991
FREE AGENT N^ By the same author THE REBELS A Study of Post-War Insurrection THE MORNING AFTER A Study of Independence NEOCOLONIALISM SOUTH-EAST ASIA IN TURMOIL THE STRUGGLE FOR THE THIRD WORLD FRANCO: A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY THE MASTERS OF POWER THE FUTURE OF COMMUNIST POWER DE GAULLE A THEORY OF CONFLICT THE MAN WHO LOST CHINA A Biography of Chiang Kai-Shek STRATEGY OF SURVIVAL THE MINIMUM STATE SOCIALISM Dream and Reality THIS WAR CALLED PEACE with Drew Middleton andJeremy Murray-Broum SOCIALISM EXPLAINED with Arthur Seldon and Michael Cummings Free Agent The Unseen War 1941-1991 BRIAN CROZIER SOMERSET ,;, COUN^ifBRARy^ ^- ■:'■ '■■' —<? 2TI72I& triTW HarperCollinsP^/^ers HarperCollinsPublishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB Published by HarperCollinsPwMabere 1993 987654321 Copyright © Brian Crozier 1993 The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 00 255192 6 Set in Linotron ITC Garamond Light by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by HarperCollinsManufacturing Glasgow All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. 66 120164 7 10456< This book is dedicated to those who made the 61 possible and sustained it, primarily to: Dick (the marathon supporter), Jimmy, -
Disinformation Warfares in World Politics: Russian Campaigns and Western Counteraction
WORKING PAPER [WP-04/2018] Disinformation warfares in world politics: Russian campaigns and Western counteraction Alejandro Jesús Palacios Jiménez International Relations students, University of Manuel Lamela Gallego Navarra; junior research assistants, Center for Martín Biera Muriel Global Affairs & Strategic Studies Junio 26, 2018 Key words: European Union, disinformation, Russia, Stratcom Task Force, democracy ______________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) has been specially damaged internally due to some disinformation campaigns, which have challenged its legislation and its very values. The different operations of disinformation alongside the communicative incapacity of the European Union’s institutions have generated a feeling of alarm in Brussels. Just a year before the celebration of the elections to the European Parliament, Europe has concentrated a lot of his efforts in challenge the issue of disinformation, generating new strategies, challenges, objectives and workshops such as the Stratcom Task Force or the group of experts of the European Commission. 1 DISINFORMATION WARFARES IN WORLD POLITICS: RUSSIAN CAMPAIGNS AND WESTERN COUNTERACTION 1. Introduction From the Cold War to nowadays, western countries have experienced a major challenge to its political agenda, national security and its challenges and objectives. During the last decades the actual international system has experienced how disinformation positions itself as one of the most important threats for national and international defence, security and governance. Being disinformation as a widely known and used tool at the past by major superpowers to expand its influence, the actual context where information can be gathered and shared with relatively ease has propitiated and favoured the merge of this phenomenon, that without any doubts implies a clear threat for State and non-State actors where values of democracy, rule of law and freedom prevail.