Kyle Orton's Blog

Home
About
Media
Published

Tag Archives: Communism

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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”

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2023

Continue reading →

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

3 Replies

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

Continue reading →

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

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 October 2023

Continue reading →

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 American Coup in Chile”: A Myth That Will Never Die

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 September 2023

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged assassination, Augusto Pinochet, Black September, Camilo Valenzuela, Carlos Prats, Central Intelligence Agency, Chamber of Deputies, Che Guevera, Chile, Christian Democrats, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, cordones industriales, Cuba, Dawson’s Field, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Ernesto Guevera, false flag, Fidel Castro, First Chief Directorate, Group of Personal Friends, Grupo de Amigos Personales, Henry Kissinger, Imperialism, Jeremy Corbyn, Jorge Alessandri, KGB, Luis Corvalán, Marxism, Nathaniel Davis, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, René Schneider, Revolutionary Left Movement, Richard Nixon, Roberto Viaux, Salvador Allende, secret police, Servicio de Investigaciones, Socialist Party, Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, terrorism, Thomas Karamessines, totalitarianism, Unidad Popular, Vietnam, Yom Kippur War on September 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albania, Alger Hiss, Anthony Blunt, Antisemitism, atrocities, Australia, Baltics, Berlin Blockade, Britain, Brown Scare, Cambodia, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, CCP, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, counter-intelligence, Czechoslovakia, Dean Acheson, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Doctrine of Containment, Donald Maclean, Doolittle Report, Douglas MacArthur, DPRK, Dwight Eisenhower, East Germany, Estonia, Ethel Rosenberg, Europe, FDR, Finland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Blake, Greece, Greek Civil War, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Hungary, ideology, Intelligence, Iran, Iron Curtain, Japan, Jews, John Cairncross, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, Kim Il Sung, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs, Korean War, Laos, Latvia, Laurence Duggan, Lee Beom-seok, Lithuania, Magnificent Five, MANHATTAN Project, Mao Zedong, Marshall Aid, Matthew Ridgway, McCarthyism, MGB, MI6, Nagasaki, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NKVD, North Korea, NSA, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation FIEND, Operation VALUABLE, Poland, Popular Front, Red Army, Red China, Republic of Korea, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Shin Song-mo, SIS, South Korea, Soviet Union, Syngman Rhee, Turkey, United Nations, VALUABLE Project, VENONA, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Walton Walker, war crimes, William Weisband, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Workers’ Party of Korea, Yugoslavia on September 20, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The First Proxy War of the Cold War in Greece

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 September 2023

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Albania, America, Antisemitism, Axis, Benito Mussolini, Britain, British Empire, Bulgaria, Cold War, Communism, Communist Party of Greece, communists, Containment Doctrine, December Events, Dekemvriana, EAM, ELAS, Eleni Papadaki, fascism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Greece, Harry Truman, Holocaust, Italy, Josep Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, KKE, Marshall Aid, Moscow Centre, National Liberation Front, National Popular Liberation Army, Nazis, NKVD, Percentages Agreement, Popular Front, proxy war, purges, Red Army, Soviet Union, terrorists, Winston Churchill, Yugoslavia on September 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Devastation of South Africa is What Always Happens When a Soviet Asset Gets to Power

1 Reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged African National Congress, ANC, Angola, assassination, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corruption, crime, Cuba, Cyril Ramaphosa, East Germany, Horst Kleinschmidt, ideology, Intelligence, KGB, Libya, MK, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, murder, Nelson Mandela, racism, SACP, secret police, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Third World Strategy, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, Umkhonto we Sizwe on September 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The September Massacres: The Violence Inherent in the French Revolution

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2023

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History and tagged AbbéSicard, American Revolution, ancien régime, atrocities, Austria, Austrian Netherlands, Battle of Yorktown, Belgium, bishops, Brabant Revolution, Britain, British Empire, Brunswick Manifesto, Charles William Ferdinand, Christianity, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, Communism, Comte de Rochambeau, Declaration of Pillnitz, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Duke of Brunswick, Enlightenment, Estates General, Fabre d’Eglantine, fédérés, François-Noël Babeuf, France, Frederick William II, French Revolution, genocide, George III, Georges Danton, Girondins, Guerre de Vendée, Habsburgs, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Inquisition, insurrection, Jacobins, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Jean-Denis Violette, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Jean-Marie Roland, Jean-Paul Marat, Joachim Ceyrat, Jourgniac de Saint-Méard, Leopold II, lettre de cachet, liberty, Louis Collenot d’Angremont, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Marquis de Sade, Maximilien Robespierre, monarchism, National Assembly, National Guard, Paris Commune, priests, Princesse de Lamballe, Prussia, radicalism, republicanism, Revolutionary Tribunal, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, Roman Catholic Church, sans-culottes, secularism, September Massacres, Seven Years’ War, show trial, Siege of Yorktown, Simon Schama, slaves, Stanislas Maillard, Storming of the Bastille, Swiss Guards, Tennis Court Oath, Tenth of August Insurrection, Third Estate, Thirteen Colonies, Tuileries Palace, Vendée, Vendée War, Versailles, War in the Vendée on September 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The American Crackdown on Nazi Supporters During the Second World War: A “Brown Scare”?

1 Reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 August 2023

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History and tagged A Yank in the RAF, Abwehr, Adolf Hitler, Alger Hiss, America, America First Committee, Anastasy Vonsiatsky, Anna Bogenholm Sloane, anti-Communism, Antisemitism, Arthur Hornbui Bell, Axis, Benito Mussolini, Birth of a Nation, Brown Scare, Brownshirts, Burke-Wadsworth Act, Burton Wheeler, Charles Lindbergh, Christianity, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, CPUSA, David Walsh, Deutscher Fichte-Bund, Donald Shea, Dr. Edward Hunter, Edward Eicher, Edward G. Robinson, Edward James Smythe, Edward Kerling, Elizabeth Dilling, Ellis Jones, Erich Gimpel, Ernest Burger, Ernest Lundeen, espionage, Espionage Act, Ex parte Quirin, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, First World War, Francis Biddle, Francis Moran, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frasier Gardner, Fritz Duquesne, Fritz Kuhn, G.W. Christians, George Dasch, George Hill, George Sylvester Viereck, George Van Horn Moseley, George W. Christians, Gerald Burton Winrod, Gerald Nye, Gerald Winrod, Gerhard Kunze, German American Bund, Great Sedition Trial, Hamilton Fish, Harry A. Jung, Harry Sawyer, Harry Truman, Heinrich Heinck, Henrik Shipstead, Henry Ford, Herbert Haupt, Herman Neubauer, Hiram Wesley Evans, Hitler-Stalin Pact, House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, Imperial Japan, IRA, Irish Republican Army, J. Edgar Hoover, James A. Colescott, James B. True, James Philip Gaffney, James True, Japanese internment, JOE K network, Joe McWilliams, John F. Cassidy, John Flynn, John Rogge, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Kennedy, Kathleen Norris, Ku Klux Klan, Kurt Ludwig, Kurt Molzahn, Laura Ingalls, Lawrence Dennis, Leo Ribuffo, Lillian Gish, Martin Dies, Martin Monti, Maximilian John St. George, Minneapolis Sedition Trial, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Trials, Munich Olympics, Murder in the Air, National Gentile League, Nazism, Neutrality Acts, No Foreign Wars Committee, Nye Committee, Operation ELSTER, Operation MAGPIE, Operation PASTORIUS, Oscar Pfaus, Otto Willumeit, Pan-Aryan Conference, Pearl Harbour attack, political extremism, Prescott Dennett, Ralph Townsend, Red Scare, Richard Quirin, Robert E. Edmondson, Robert E. Wood, Roman Catholicism, Ronald Reagan, Rudolph Fahl, Second World War, sedition, show trial, Silver Legion, Silver Shirts, Silvershirts, Smith Act, Socialist Workers’ Party, Soviet Union, spies, STIER, Supreme Court, SWP, Teamsters Union, Teodore Erdmann Erich Lau, The Great Dictator, The International Jew: The World’s Problem, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, totalitarianism, Treaty of Versailles, Trotskyism, Ulrich Fleischhauer, Ulrich von der Osten, United States v. McWilliams, Verne Marshall, Vladimir Lenin, Werner Thiel, White Shirts, Whittaker Chambers, William Colepaugh, William Dudley Pelley, William Pelley, William Rhodes Davis, William Sebold, Wolfgang Ebell, Woodrow Wilson, Yezhovshchina on August 15, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Post navigation

← Older posts

Newer posts →

Search for:

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

	pre-Boomer Marine br… on Soviet Strategy and the Downfa…
	pre-Boomer Marine br… on The Soviet Propaganda and Terr…
	Charles C. on The West’s Inconsistent Approa…
	pre-Boomer Marine br… on “The Revolutionary Catechism”,…
	pre-Boomer Marine br… on Can Syria’s Future Escape Ahma…