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Soviet Strategy and the Downfall of Salvador Allende

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Alexei Kosygin, Andrés Allende, Andrés Pascal Allende, Angola, Augusto Pinochet, Bernard Lewis, Bolivia, Cambridge spies, Carlos Altamirano, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevara, Chile, Chile truckers' strike, Chilean coup, Christopher Andrew, Church Committee, CIA, Claudio Orrego, Claudio Véliz, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Chile, confidential contact, constitution, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Czechoslovakia, DDR, democracy, DGI, Diario Oficial, Directorate of National Liberation, DLN, East Germany, Eduardo Frei, El Furor y el Delirio, El Mercurio, ELN, Ernesto Guevara, Ethiopia, extremism, Fernandez Oña, Fidel Castro, Fuerza Central, GAP, GDR, General Directorate of Intelligence, German Democratic Republic, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo des Amigos Personales, Grupo Móvil, Guatemalan coup, ideology, Informacion y Chequeo, Intelligence, Investigations Service, Joaquín Fermandois, Jorge Masetti, José Piñera, Joseph Stalin, Juan Carretero Ibáñez, KGB, Latin America, Leandro Yañéz, Leftist Revolutionary Movement, Leonid Brezhnev, Luis Corvalán, Magnificent Five, Mariano Rumor, Mario Garcίa Enchaustegui, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Miguel Enríquez, mir, Miristas, Movement of the Revolutionary Left, Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, Mozambique, National Liberation Army, national liberation movements, Nikolai Podgorny, North Korea, Novosti, Oscar Waiss, PCC, PCCh, Pedro Vuslovic, Popular Front, Popular Unity, PS, Rule of Law, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Sierra Maestra, socialism, Socialist Party, South America, South Vietnam, Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, Soviet Empire, Soviet Politburo, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spies, STASI, Svyatoslav Fyodorovich Kuznetsov, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third World Strategy, totalitarianism, trades unions, Unidad Popular, United States, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam War, Vladimir Lenin, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Yuri Andropov on December 2, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

A Microcosm of Why There’s No Israeli-Palestinian Peace

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 November 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged Abu Iyad, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Morris, Bill Clinton, Camp David, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Farouk Kaddoumi, Faruq al-Qaddumi, Gaza, ideology, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish State, Jews, KGB, Oslo Peace Process, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian National Charter, Palestinian National Council, Palestinian National Covenant, Palestinian State, Phased Program, PLO, PLO Charter, PNC, rejectionism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, suicide bombing, Temple Mount, Ten Point Program, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Zionism on November 18, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Nazis, Augusto Pinochet, and Soviet Propaganda

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Admiral Horthy, Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Allendists, Amnesty International, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arrow Cross, assassinations, Augusto Pinochet, Auschwitz, Baader-Meinhof Group, Benito Mussolini, Bertrand Russell, BND, Boris Pavlovich Fetisov, Cambodia, Central Intelligence Agency, Chile, Chilean coup, CIA, Clodomiro Almeyda, Cold War, Communism, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, DDR, dezinformatsiya, DINA, Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, disinformation, East Germany, Ecuador, El Tata, Enrique Pschold Reschenback, Escucha Chile, Eugenio Pacelli, fascism, Fascist Italy, Federal Intelligence Service, Fidel Castro, forgeries, Fourth Reich, FRELIMO, Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, FRG, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Gran Sasso raid, Helsinki Final Act, Henry Kissinger, Holocaust, human rights groups, Hungary, Importadora Goldmann, Intelligence, International League Against Racism and Antisemitism, Iranian Revolution, Iron Curtain, Islamic Revolution, Israel, Izvestia, Jews, Juan Perón, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Kommunist, Latin America, Le Monde, LICRA, Luis Corvalán, Manuel Contreras, Marxism-Leninism, media, Mikhail Gorbachev, Miklós Horthy, MOSSAD, Mozambique, Mozambique Liberation Front, National Intelligence Directorate, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Nazism, New York Times, Nicaragua, Novosti, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, NYKP, Operation DENVER, Operation GLADIO, Operation PANZERFAUST, Operation TOUCAN, Orlando Letelier, Otto Skorzeny, Philippe Sands, political warfare, Pope Pius XII, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Revolution, Pravda, propaganda, Radio Moscow, Red Army, Rhodesia, Ronen Bergman, Rose Styron, Russell Tribunal, Salvador Allende, Sandinistas, Schutzstaffel, Second World War, secret police, Simon Wiesenthal, socialism, South America, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Third World Campaign, Soviet Union, SS, Syria, TASS, terrorism, The Gulag Archipelago, Third Reich, urban guerrillas, USSR, Vietnam War, Walther Rauff, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, West Germany on October 4, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Taking the Right Lessons From the Dismantling of the Russian Illegals Network in Brazil

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adriana Carolina Costa Silva Pereira, Aleksandr Utekhin, Anna Chapman, Anna Dultseva, Anthony Blunt, Arnold Deutsch, Artem Shmyrev, Artyom Dultsev, Cambridge Five, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, Chekists, CIA, Communism, corruption, Dmitri Bystrolyotov, Donald Maclean, Eric Lopes, FCD, Federal Security Service, Federico Luiz Gonzalez Rodriguez, First Chief Directorate, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Gerhard Daniel Campos Wittich, Great Illegals, GRU, Guy Burgess, ICC, Illegals, Intelligence, International Criminal Court, Interpol, Irina Alekseyevna Antonova, Irina Shmyreva, Jair Bolsonaro, John Cairncross, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kim Philby, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula, Magnificent Five, Main Intelligence Directorate, Manuel Francisco Steinbruck Pereira, Maria Isabel Moresco Garcia, Maria Luisa Dominguez Cardozo, Mikhail Mikushin, military intelligence, NKVD, non-official cover, Olga Igorevna Tyutereva, Operation EAST, Richard Sorge, Roman Olegovich Koval, Russia, Sergey Cherkasov, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, spies, SVR, tradecraft, Tsardom, Ukraine, Uruguay, Victor Muller Ferreira, Vladimir Putin, Yezhovshchina on May 21, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamists in Britain React to the Fall of Syria’s Regime

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged 5PillarsUK, 9/11, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab al-Suri, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, anti-imperialism, Antisemitism, Azhar Qayum, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CAGE, Cageprisoners, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, conspiracy theories, extremism, Guantanamo Bay, Haitham al-Haddad, HAMAS, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, homosexuality, Houthis, HTS, ideology, Ikhwan, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islam21c, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Jihadi John, jihadism, jihadists, Kashmir, libel, MAB, MCB, MEND, Moazzam Begg, Mohammed Emwazi, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Muhammad Ahmad, Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Engagement and Development, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, NATO, neoconservatives, Pakistan, Palestine, Salman Butt, September 11 attacks, Soviet Union, Sunni Islam, Ummah Welfare Trust, women’s rights, Yemen, Zionism, Zionists on January 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin Didn’t Go Quite As He Planned

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alsu Kurmasheva, assassination, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Central Intelligence Agency, Chechnya, Cheka, China, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, conspiracy theories, Dagestan, ethnic cleansing, Evan Gershkovich, FSB, George W. Bush, History, Hungary, Intelligence, Islam, Jews, jihadism, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, KGB, Left-wing, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Custine, Muslims, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NSA, Orthodox Christianity, Poland, post-liberal, propaganda, religion, revisionism, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, secret police, Serbs, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, special services, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Ukraine, Useful Idiots, Vadim Krasikov, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, War on Terror, Yugoslavia, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili on February 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Evidence is Now Clear: Iran Was Behind Every Aspect of the October 7 Pogrom in Israel

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 January 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Afghanistan, Al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Alawis, Alawites, Ali Khamenei, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Ansarallah, Artesh, Axis of Resistance, Barack Obama, Basel Mahadi, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Esmail Qaani, Ezzatollah Zarghami, Five Eyes, Gaza, Gaza War, Ghazi Hamad, Gholam Ali Rashid, HAMAS, Hassan Hoballah, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Islamism, Ismail Haniyeh, Ismailism, Israel, Joe Biden, Joint Operations Chamber, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Liwa Fatemiyoun, Liwa Fatemiyun, Liwa Zainebiyoun, Liwa Zaynabiyun, missiles, Mohsen Rafighdoost, Muslim Brotherhood, National Defence Forces, NDF, October 7 Pogrom, Osama Hamdan, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, Popular Committees, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ramazan Sharif, Resistance Axis, Saleh al-Aruri, Shabiha, Shi'a militias, Shi’a jihadism, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Yemen, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ziyad al-Nakhala on January 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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”

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.

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