Some were useful idiots; some were Soviet agents
Bookworm on Nov 15 2008 at 11:53 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
There was a popular belief amongst conservatives when I was growing up that the anti-War/anti-nuclear movement wasn’t simply a spontaneous awakening amongst the citizenry, alarmed by the direction their countries were taking, but was instead a concerted effort by Communist agents planted in the West. That apparently paranoid conservative suspicion of the 1960s and 1970s (dead and politically incorrect by the 1980s) now proves to be true in at least one case coming out of Great Britain:
Labour was rocked by a Cold War spy scandal last night over allegations that a Party activist linked to two members of Tony Blair’s Cabinet spied for the Czech Government when the country was controlled by the Soviet Union.
Left-wing activist Cynthia Roberts, who stood as a Labour Parliamentary candidate, worked for the Communists under the codename Agent Hammer, according to documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
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Mrs Roberts moved to the Czech capital from London, where she used a House of Commons office to run the controversial Labour Action for Peace (LAP) group, which opposed nuclear weapons, and had links to Soviet Moscow.
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The disclosures are a reminder of how close some elements of the Labour Party were to the Soviet Union before the fall of communism 20 years ago.
Even paranoid people and countries have enemies.
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This has always been true, Book. Who did you think organized the anti-Iraq protests?
Ymarsakar:
Exactly. International ANSWER is a Stalinist front. Code Pink is led by a communist, Medea Benjamin, who lived in Cuba for seven years and proclaimed that s**thole to be the kind of paradise on earth that she hopes all Americans will one day enjoy.
I have never been fooled for a second that the lowlifes who have led the anti-war marches for the past 40 years would not welcome the coming of a regime that would, without hesitation, march millions of us to the gulag.
It’s why we got the guns, the military power, and the nukes, Charles.
They can’t be trusted with such power, cause whenever they have been entrusted with such power, they’ve abused it and given it to mass murderers that wiped them out.
Now that the US military and the United States are protecting such folks, however, they start breeding like cockroaches. Millions and millions of em.
http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/trotsky-and-stalin-leftist-behavior/
Take a good long look at the table of generals in the middle of my post, Charles.
In fact, everyone go take a long good look and then come back and read my second statement again.
They would most definitely wipe themselves out if it had not been for the stabilizing influence of the United States: through starvation if the purges aren’t enough.
We are the only reason why Marxists and Leftists keep popping up in the millions upon millions.
“Agent Hammer”
Maybe she made her bones turning
Armand Hammer?
It used to just drive me wild when I was in the Intelligence Community; I’d read things in the mainstream press that I absolutely knew to be untrue because I’d seen the intelligence — no, I can’t tell you what, even now — and there was nothing I could say.
You might look into the Venona Intercepts, through — for example, Alger Hiss really was a Soviet spy.
Bill, Armand Hammer didn’t need to be “turned”. He was a red-diaper baby from the start, and was in fact named for the symbol of the Socialist Labor party.
Charlie,
I know. I was just trying to make a joke. I do think that someone at the Committee on State Security was having a little joke, though.
Bulshist Y Mecht
>>and was in fact named for the symbol of the Socialist Labor party.>>
Naaahhh! And here all those years I thought he was named for the baking soda!!