>>Labor Party leader, member of Parliament, and former employment secretary Michael Foot had been a paid KGB agent for decades, and was still on the KGB books as an agent of influence when he headed the British Labor Party and ran against Thatcher for leadership of England in 1983. Foot would have become prime minister if Labor had won.
and yet the Left in England likes to spin that it was a silent coup that prevented them from taking power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_British_Coup
A Very British Coup is a 1982 novel by British politician Chris Mullin. The novel has twice been adapted for television; as A Very British Coup in 1988 and as Secret State in 2012.
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Harry Perkins is the left-wing Leader of the Labour Party and Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central. Beating all the odds, Harry becomes Prime Minister and he sets out to dismantle media monopolies, withdraw from NATO, carry out unilateral nuclear disarmament, and create an open government. Many people in the media, financial services, and the intelligence services are deeply unhappy with Harry’s win and his policies, and they unite to stop him by any means.
The book was written in 1981, at a time when Tony Benn looked likely to become deputy leader of the Labour Party which at the time was strongly challenging the government of Margaret Thatcher in the opinion polls. It also has strong echoes of the persistent rumours that have circulated over the years about attempts by members of the British security services, and other wings of the British Establishment, to undermine and depose Harold Wilson’s Labour government of the mid-1970s.[3] This first became widespread public knowledge around 1986 with the controversy over Spycatcher, after the publication of the novel but before the broadcast of the TV version. The story also has echoes of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis in which there was alleged CIA involvement to remove a government proposing to close US military bases on Australian soil.
Fascinating story. Just finished MacIntyre’s book. Highly recommended. Heck, all of his books are great.
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Books sounds very interesting - thanks for posting this.
The title, “The Spy and the Traitor” leaves ambiguity on who was which, among a surfeit of candidates.
Does MacEntyre offer any real explanation for Robert Armstrong’s failure to inform the head of the government he served? His behavior was that of a Russian agent — perhaps GRU outside Gordievski’s ambit. Another question would be why the head of British Civil Service would be informed by MI5, instead of the PM directly, and why they would not have made a second attempt to inform her when a response to the first was obviously absent. Surely the UK does not use the head of Civil Service to do it’s intel briefings.
wow.
He is sometimes hard to like, and impossible not to admire. He has no regrets, he says, but from time to time he will break off in mid-conversation and stare darkly into a distance only he can see. He is one of the bravest people I have ever met, and one of the loneliest.
The Clintons gave the Chinese Communists our most guarded nuclear secrets which led then to leap 60 years of development in their nuclear weapons
Jimmy Carter gAve North Korea nuclear tech & uranium, tons of food, fuel and money for the promise Not to develop nukes or long range rockets - which they did without any fears of reprisal or punishment anyways. Now they posses both.
Obama gave the Iranians mullahs a carte Blanche door to do anything they want without fear of punishment for breaking the promise not to develop nukes and lifted all embargoes against them, the European companies leaped at the chance to do business with them, and in a final insult the mullahs are give the green light by the UN atomic agency to inspect themselves for nuclear compliance!
Democrats are enemies of the free world!
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How much money is being received by the AFL-CIO, UAW, SEIU from overseas?