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Titanic: Tragedy, Heroism, and a Lost World

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Book Review of ‘A Night to Remember’, by Walter Lord

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged A Night to Remember, Alexander Compton, America, Arthur Rostron, Ben Guggenheim, Benjamin Guggenheim, Bruce Ismay, Captain Scott, Captain Smith, Charles Gordon, Charles Lightoller, Christianity, class, Edward Smith, Empire, Fang Lang, First World War, General Gordon, George Orwell, George Rowe, Great Man, Great War, Harold Lowe, Harvey Collier, Henry Wilde, heroic failure, Ida Straus, Isidor Straus, James Cameron, John Stewart, Kate Winslet, lifeboats, Lord Mersey John Bigham, Margaret Brown, Molly Brown, Retreat from Kabul, RMS Lusitania, RMS Titanic, Robert Scott, Second World War, Siege of Khartoum, Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Sixties Revolution, SS Storstad, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Thomas Andrews, Titanic, Viscount Mersey John Bigham, Wallace Hartley, Walter Lord, White Star Line, William Alden Smith, William Hoyt, William Murdoch, Winston Churchill, women and children first on April 21, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged A.G. Vislykh, Albert Grundeman, Alger Hiss, Allan Dalziel, apartheid, ASIO, ASIS, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Australian Communist Party, Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, B. A. Santamaria, Baltics, Ben Chifley, Bolshevik Revolution, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, Canada, Captive Nations, Charles Spry, China, CIA, Clement Attlee, Cold War, Committee of Information, Communism, Communist Control Act, Communist Party United States of America, corruption, CPUSA, DIABOLO, Donald Maclean, Dwight Eisenhower, E.V. Kovalenok, Ethel Rosenberg, Evdokia Kartseva, FBI, Fergan O’Sullivan, Five Eyes, France, Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Genrikh Yagoda, Geoffrey Yeend, Georgy Malenkov, Gough Whitlam, Great Terror, Greece, GRIGORII, GRU, Guy Burgess, H.C. Beckett, Henry Kerby, Herbert Evatt, Igor Gouzenko, Illegals, Imperial Japan, Imperialism, Intelligence, Jews, John Curtin, Joseph Davies, Joseph Stalin, journalists, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, KI, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Korean War, Lavrentiy Beria, Legals, Liberal Party, Liberal-National Coalition, Lydia Mokras, Magnificent Five, Marxism, McCarthyism, MGB, MI5, MI6, Michael Bialoguski, mole, National Government, Nazis, Nazism, New Zealand, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolai Generalov, Nikolai Khokhlov, Nikolai Lifanov, NKVD, Operation CABIN 12, Philip Kislitsyn, Poland, Pyotr Prudnikov, Red Army, Red China, Red Scare, rezident, Rezidentura, Robert Manne, Robert Menzies, Roman Krivosh, Ron Richards, Rose-Marie Oilier, Royal Commission on Espionage, Rupert Lockwood, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, SIGINT, signals intelligence, SIS, Smith Act, South Africa, Soviet Union, spies, Sydney Harbour, Sydney Morning Herald, TASS, The Petrov Affair, totalitarianism, treason, Ukraine, Victor Kravchenko, Vladimir Petrov, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav Molotov, Whittaker Chambers, Winston Churchill, Yezhovshchina, Yuriy Rastvorov, Zinoviev Letter on April 8, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Ana Belen Montes, Axis, Bay of Piglets, Bill Clinton, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, CCP, Chavista, Chile, Chilean coup, China, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, colonialism, Commandante, Communism, Communist Cuba, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Defense Intelligence Agency, DGI, DI, DIA, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, espionage, Evo Morales, FBI, Fidel Castro, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Services Institute, General Intelligence Directorate, INR, Intelligence, Intelligence Directorate, Iran, Israel, James Olson, Justice Department, Kendall Myers, KGB, La Red Avispa, Marta Rita Velasquez, Marxism, NSC, Peronism, Raul Castro, Red China, Rolando Cubela Secades, Russia, Salvador Allende, South Vietnam, SOUTHCOM, Soviet Union, spies, State Department, The WASP Network, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. National Security Council, United States, United States Southern Command, USAID, Victor Manuel Rocha on March 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, active measures, Air France Flight 139, anti-Zionism, assassination, Baader-Meinhof Gang. Thomas Reuter, Ba’athism, Baruch Bar-Lev, Benny Peled, Black September, Brigitte Kuhlmann, Brigitte Schulz, Bruce MacKenzie, Charles Bronson, Che Guevara Group Gaza Brigade, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Dan Shomron, David Opatoshu, Dawson’s Field hijackings, Doctor’s Plot, Dora Bloch, East Germany, Eddie Constantine, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Al Flight LY512, Entebbe raid, FATAH, Gamal Abdel Nasser, genocide, George Habash, Greek Orthodox Christian, Horst Buchholz, hostages, ideology, IDF, Idi Amin, Iraq, Israel, Israel Defence Force, John Saxon, Jomo Kenyatta, Jordan, Joseph Stalin, Kenya, KGB, Khalil al-Wazir, Libya, Marxism-Leninism, Menachem Begin, Michel Bacos, Mivtsa Yonatan, MOSSAD, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Munich massacre, Nairobi five, Nazis, October 7 Pogrom, Operation THUNDERBOLT, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Operation YONATAN, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, Peter Finch, PFLP, PLO, political warfare, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, RAF, Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells, Revolutionäre Zellen, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Sayeret Matkal, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Operations Group, STASI, Stephen Macht, Syria, Uganda, Wadi Haddad, Wilfried Böse, Yasser Arafat, Yekutiel Adam, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin, Yonatan Netanyahu, Yoni Netanyahu on February 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The “Genocide” Case Against Israel at the International Court of Justice is a Political Sham

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged active measures, Adolf Eichmann, African National Congress, ANC, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, China, Communism, crimes against humanity, Cyril Ramaphosa, Dreyfus affair, Gaza, genocide, Genocide Convention, HAMAS, Holodomor, human rights, humanitarian aid, ICC, ICJ, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law, international law, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khaled Qaddoumi, Kurt Waldheim, lawfare, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow Trials, Muslims, Nazis, Nelson Mandela, Nuremberg Trials, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Omar al-Bashir, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, political warfare, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Russia, Second World War, show trial, South Africa, Soviet Union, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Umar al-Bashir, United Nations, United States, UNRWA, Vladimir Putin, war crimes, World Court, Yemen on January 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bill Browder, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Dolan, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, Fusion GPS, George Blake, George Tenet, Glenn Simpson, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Igor Danchenko, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, Natalia Veselnitskaya, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Olga Galkina, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Adolph Eichmann, African National Congress, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Alfredo Guerra Borges, Allen Dulles, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, ANC, Angola, Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano, assassination, banana republic, Bernrado Alvaro Monzon, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Bolshevism, bourgeois nationalist, Carlos Castillo Armas, Central Intelligence Agency, Che Guevara, Chetniks, Chile, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Contras, Costa Rica, covert action, Crusade, Czechoslovakia, Decree 900, Derg, Dick Cheney, Dominican Republic, Dragoljub Mihailovich, Dragoljub Mihailović, Draža Mihailović, Dwight Eisenhower, Edmund Whitman, El Jefe, El Salvador, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, Fazlollah Zahedi, FDR, FLN, Francisco Franco, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, General Franco, Georgi Malenkov, Guatemala, Guatemalan Party of Labour, Guinea, gunboat diplomacy, Haiti, Halliburton, Harry Truman, Henry Cabot Lodge, Honduras, Hungary, ideology, Imperialism, International Railways of Central America, Iran, IRCA, J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation, Jacobo Arbenz, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Jeremy Corbyn, Jesús Maria de Galindez, Jesuits, John Foster Dulles, John Peurifoy, Jorge Toriello, Jorge Ubico, José Fortuny, José Manuel Fortuny, Joseph Mengele, Joseph Stalin, Juan Córdova Cerna, Juan José Arevalo, Juan Manuel Galvez, Juan Peron, Jugoslavija, Kermit Roosevelt, KGB, Korean War, Kwame Nkrumah, Latin America, League of the Militant Godless, Mali, Mario Silva Jonama, Marshal Tito, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mexico, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Modibo Keïta, Mohammad Mossadeq, Monroe Doctrine, Mozambique, MS Alfhem, Namibia, National Liberation Front, national liberation movements, Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, Nicaragua, Nikita Khrushchev, North Korea, O. Henry, OAS, Operation AJAX, Operation BOOT, Operation PBFORTUNE, Operation PBSUCCESS, Operation WASHTUB, Organisation of American States, Oscar Osorio, peasants, PGT, Piero Gleijeses, PNPR, Portugal, psychological warfare, radicalism, Rafael Trujillo, Red China, Rhodesia, Robert Hill, Roman Catholic Church, Romulo Betancour, SACP, Salma uprising, Salvador Allende, Sandinistas, Schroder Banking Corp., secret police, Shah, Somalia, South African Communist Party, Soviet Union, Spain, STASI, StB, Stephen Kinzer, Stephen Schlesinger, Sullivan and Cromwell, terrorism, The Boss, Tiburcio Carias Andino, totalitarianism, Tudeh, UDBA, UFCO, United Fruit Company, Ustasha, Ustaše, Venezuela, Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Vladimir Lenin, Walter Bedell Smith, William Sydney Porter, Yankee imperialism, Yugoslavia, Četniki, Četniks on November 30, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

America Sold Out Taiwan Before Conceding to Red China

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Anatoly Dobrynin, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Cambodia, CCP, Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek, China lobby, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, Cultural Revolution, détente, Deng Xiaoping, Doctrine of Containment, Douglas MacArthur, France, French Revolution, Gang of Four, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Great Leap Forward, Guomindang, Henry Kissinger, Ho Chi Minh, ideology, Indochinese Communist Party, Israel, Joseph Stalin, journalists, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Laos, Lyndon Johnson, Mao Zedong, Marvin Liebman, media, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Nazi Germany, Nelson Rockefeller, Nicolae Ceausescu, Nikita Khrushchev, North Vietnam, Protestantism, Red China, Republic of China, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Second World War, Sino-Soviet split, South Vietnam, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Spiro Agnew, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square massacre, totalitarianism, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamization, William F. Buckley, Yom Kippur War, Zhou Enlai on October 1, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Strange, Strange Story of Colonia Dignidad in Chile

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged American televangelists, Argentina, assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Baptism, Bavarian Village, Bible, Boris Weisfeiler, Charles Horman, Chile, Christianity, Colonia Dignidad, Costa Gavras, cult, Dignity Colony, DINA, Evangelical Free Church, Frank Teruggi, Germans, Germany, Guyana, Hartmut Hopp, Hugo Baar, Intensive Boarding School, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Jorge Alessandri, Jorge Zepeda, Joseph Mengele, los desaparecidos, National Intelligence Directorate, Nazis, Patricio Aylwin, Paul Schäfer, Pentecostalism, Peoples Temple, Reinhard Döring, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, Villa Baviera, Werner Schmidtke, West Germany, Wilhelmine Lindeman, William M. Branham on September 25, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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