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The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Albigensian Crusade, Aleksey Arakcheyev, Alexander Benckendorff, Alexander Boshniak, Alexander Golitsyn, Alexander Herzen, Alexander I, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Radishchev, Anastasy Kuzmin, Ancient Greece, Arkady Maiboroda, Arzamas Society, assassination, Astolphe de Custine, Austria, Battle of Austerlitz, Battle of Borodino, Battle of Kulm, Battle of Leipzig, Battle of Maloyaroslavets, Battle of the Nations, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle of Waterloo, Bolsheviks, Britain, Catherine the Great, Catholicism, Charles XII, chinovnik, Christianity, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Classical world, Classics, Committee of Public Safety, Congress of Vienna, conspiracy, Crimean War, Decembrist Revolt, Decembrist wife, Dekabristka, egalitarianism, Ekaterina II, Ekaterina Trubetskaya, Enlightenment, espionage, Freemasonry, French Revolution, Greek Revolution, Gustav Goebel, Higher Police, Illarion Vasilchikov, Illuminati, Inquisition, Inquisitors, intelligentsia, Ippolit Muravyov-Apostol, Ivan Pushchin, Ivan Vitt, Jacobinism, Jacobins, Jews, John Sherwood, Joseph Stalin, Klemens von Metternich, Kondraty Ryleyev, Konstantin, Latin Christendom, liberalism, Lord Byron, Ludwig Niklaus von Stürler, Marquis de Custine, Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Miloradovich, Mikhail Speransky, Nakaz, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Nicholas I, Nikita Muravyov, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Ogarev, Nikolay Panov, Northern Society, Operation BARBAROSSA, Orthodox Christianity, Paul I, Pavel I, Pavel Kiselyov, Pavel Pestel, Philaret Drozdov, Poland, Protestantism, Pyotr Chaadayev, Pyotr Kakhovsky, Roman Catholic Church, Romanovs, Romanticism, Russian Truth, Russkaya Pravda, secret police, secularism, Sergey Muravyov-Apostol, Sergey Trubetskoy, socialism, Society of United Slavs, Southern Society, Soviet Union, Spain, spies, Talleyrand, Terror, terrorism, terrorist-revolutionaries, Third Section, Treaties of Tilsit, Tsar, Ukraine, Union of Salvation, Vasily Davydov, Vendée War, Viscount Castlereagh, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Raevsky, Vladimir Rayevsky, Wilhelm Küchelbecker on June 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Ada Brooks, Adolf Hitler, Andrea Chalupa, Animal Farm, Bolshevik Revolution, chemical weapons, China, collectivisation, Communism, concentration camps, Cultural Revolution, David Lloyd George, dekulakisation, Democrats, Edgar Allan Poe, espionage, Eugene Lyons, fake news, famine, FDR, First World War, Five-Year Plan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gareth Jones, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Orwell, Germany, Great Depression, Great Man Theory, GULAG, History, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, international law, James Norton, Japan, Joseph Mawle, Joseph Stalin, Kazakhstan, Kenneth Cranham, KGB, kulaks, Magnificent Five, Marcin Czarnik, Metro-Vickers Affair, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Mr. Jones, Nazis, Nazism, NKVD, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Paul Kleb, Paul Klebnikov, Red China, Richard Nixon, Robert Conquest, Russia, Russian Revolution, Second World War, secret police, Soviet Union, spies, subversion, surveillance, terror-famine, The Harvest of Sorrow, The Masque of the Red Death, The New York Times, theology, totalitarianism, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Rapallo, Treaty of Versailles, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Walter Duranty, weapons of mass destruction, Weimar Germany, WMD, Zhou Enlai on April 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 April 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Seidl, Andrey Vyshinsky, Aron Trainin, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan crisis, Baltics, Ben Ferencz, Bessarabia, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Boris Bazilevsky, Britain, Burdenko Report, Claus von Stauffenberg, colonialism, Communism, concentration camps, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, Czechoslovakia, espionage, Estonia, Eugen Oberhauser, Europe, Finland, France, Francine Hirsch, Franklin Roosevelt, Friedrich Ahrens, Friedrich Gaus, General Melchett, Geoffrey Lawrence, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Liddell, Hans Frank, Hans Fritzsche, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Hermann Göring, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hjalmar Schacht, House of Commons, IADL, ICC, ICRC, IMT, Intelligence, intelligentsia, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Criminal Court, International Katyn Commission, international law, International Military Tribunal, Iona Nikitchenko, Iran, Iron Curtain, Jews, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin, justice, Katyn massacre, Kharkov Trial, Korean War, Krasnodar Trial, Latvia, Leonid Raikhman, Lev Smirnov, Lithuania, Lubyanka, Marko Markov, MI5, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Trials, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazis, Nazism, Nikolai Zorya, Nikolay Burdenko, NKVD, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Otto Stahmer, Poland, Red Army, Reinhard von Eichborn, Roman Rudenko, Rudolf Hess, Russia, Second World War, secret police, Secret Protocols, Sergei Kolesnikov, show trial, SMERSH, Solomon Lozovsky, Soviet Union, spies, Tatiana Stupnikova, Telford Taylor, Thomas Dodd, totalitarianism, Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ukraine, United Nations, USSR, victor’s justice, Viktor Prozorovsky, war crimes, West Germany, Winston Churchill, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Yezhovshchina on April 11, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, alcoholism, Anglican Church, Anglo-Catholicism, Antisemitism, Arnold Deutsch, Arnold Goodman, Bolshevik Revolution, Britain, Cambridge spies, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Christianity, Church of England, CIA, Clement Attlee, CND, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, compromising material, counter-intelligence, CPGB, Donald Maclean, Ena Binfield, espionage, fascism, Francisco Franco, General Franco, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background, Harold Wilson, Hitler Youth, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, homosexuality, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Ian Mikardo, Intelligence, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, John Macnamara, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kim Philby, kompromat, Korean War, Labour Party, Leon Trotsky, LEPAGE, Lord Beaverbrook, Mafia, Magnificent Five, MÄDCHEN, MI5, MI6, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moscow Centre, NATO, Nazi Germany, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, Operation BARBAROSSA, organised crime, peace movement, Profumo affair, progressive, progressivism, purges, Raymond Fletcher, Reginald Kray, Robert Boothby, Ronald Kray, Ruling Passions, Second Vatican Council, Security Service, SIS, socialism, Soviet Illegals, Soviet invasion of Hungary, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, spy, StB, SYNOK, The Daily Express, The Daily Worker, The Tribune Group, Tom Driberg, United States, Vatican, Vietnam War, Winston Churchill, World Peace Council, Yezhovshchina on March 26, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Nazism: Origins and the Weimar Context

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Ancient Greeks, Antisemitism, Anton Drexler, Austria-Hungary, Battle of the Somme, Bavaria, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Beer Hall Putsch, Bela Kun, Bolsheviks, Britain, Brownshirts, Brusilov Offensive, Christianity, Communism, Communist Party of Germany, DAP, democracy, Die Frauenkirche, Dietrich Eckart, Dolchstoßlegende, Easter Rising, Erich Ludendorff, Ernst Röhm, espionage, Eugen Leviné, Eugenio Pacelli, far-Right, Ferdinand Foch, First World War, Foxl, France, Franconia, Freikorps, French Revolution, Friedrich Ebert, Georg von Schönerer, German Workers’ Party, Germany, Gottfried Feder, Great Depression, Great War, Habsburgs, Hans Frank, Hermann Esser, Hermann Göring, Hugo Gutmann, Hungary, hyperinflation, Ignatius of Loyola, Ireland, Jesuits, Jews, Joseph Caillaux, Julius Streicher, Kaiser, Kapp Putsch, Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch, Karl Harrer, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Lueger, Karl Mayr, KPD, League of Nations, Lusitania, Lutheranism, March Action, March Revolution, Marxism, Max Levien, Mein Kampf, Mexico, Munich Cathedral, National Socialist German Workers’ Party, nationalism, Nazi Party, Nazism, NSDAP, October Revolution, paganism, pagans, Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XII, Protestantism, Räterepublik, Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, Roman Catholic Church, Roman salute, Romanovs, Romans, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hess, Ruhr crisis, Russia, Russian Revolution, SA, Sir Roger Casement, Slovakia, Social Democratic Party, Society of Jesus, Soviet Union, Spartacist uprising, SPD, Stormtroopers, Sturmabteilung, swastika, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Alfred Rosenberg, Thule Society, Tobias Akselrod, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of Versailles, Ulrich Brockdorff-Rantzau, United States, Völkisch movement, Vladimir Lenin, Wall Street crash, Walther von Lüttwitz, Weimar Republic, Wilhelm Frick, William P. Frye, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Kapp, Woodrow Wilson, Zimmermann Telegram on March 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Reviewing the Mystery of Jihadi Ideologue Abdullah Azzam’s Assassination Three Decades Later

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 August 2022

Abdullah Azzam [image source]

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Qatada al-Filistini, Afghan Arabs, Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, al-Hazimiyya, Al-Jihad Magazine, al-Maktab al-Khadamat, al-Qaeda, al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, America, Arab-Afghans, Armed Islamic Group, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Communism, Edmund McWilliams, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, espionage, Farkhar massacre, George H.W. Bush, GIA, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, HAMAS, Hazimis, Hezbollah al-Hijaz, historiography, Hizb-i-Islami, Hizballah al-Hijaz, ideology, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Awakening, Islamic State, Israel, Issam al-Barqawi, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jamal Khashoggi, Jamiat-i-Islami, jihad, Jihadi-Salafism, Jordan, KGB, KHAD, Mikhail Gorbachev, MOSSAD, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, mujahideen, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Hamid, Nasrullah Mansur, Omar Othman, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, Peshawar, PLO, Rashid Ahmad, Red Army, Sab al-Layl Mosque, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Services Bureau, Soviet Union, spies, State Intelligence Agency, takfir, theology, Thomas Hegghammer, Umar Othman, Usama bin Laden, Wahhabism on August 11, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

United Nations Report Finds Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Reduced, But Reviving

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 July 2022

Islamic State in Palmyra, December 2016

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy and tagged Abd al-Haq al-Turkestani, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Raouf al-Muhajir, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdoul Salam Dicko, Abdul Qadir Mumin, Abu Abdullah ibn Umar al-Barnawi, Abu Ahmed al-Madani, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Dujana al-Iraqi, Abu Hammam al-Suri, Abu Hamza al-Khalidi, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza Sharqiyah, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhammad al-Turkestani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Ithawi, Abu Qarwani, Abu Qasim, Abu Sayyaf Group, Abu Ubayda, Abu Ubayda Yusuf al-Anabi, Abu Umayr al-Hadhrami, Abu Yahia al-Jazairi, Abu Yaseer Hassan, Abu Zacharia, Abubakar Shekau, ADF, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahlu-Sunnah Wa-Jama, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmed Diriye, Ahmed Hamed Hussain al-Ithawi, Ahmed Umar, Al-Anfal office, Al-Faruq office, Al-Furqan office, Al-Hawl, Al-Hol, Al-Karrar office, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Al-Sham office, Al-Siddiq office, Al-Sinaa prison, Algeria, Allied Democratic Forces, Amadou Boucary, Amadou Koufa, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, and Burkina Faso, Ansar Allah, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Ansarallah, Ansaru, Ansarul Islam, AQAP, AQIM, AQIS, Ashan Sumut, Asidan Ag Hitta, ASWJ, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba Idrisa, Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, Bitcoin, Boko Haram, China, cryptocurrency, Delegated Committee, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, Egypt, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, espionage, ETIM, Europe, Faharudin Hadji Satar, Faknane Ag Taki, Faruq al-Suri, Faysal al-Khalidi, France, GRU, guerrilla war, Habib Yusuf, Haji Hamid, Haji Zayd, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hasan Mahsum, hawala, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Hittin Committee, Houthis, HTS, Huthis, Idlib, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISCAP, ISEAP, ISGS, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Central African Province, Islamic State East Asia Province, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, Islamic State in West Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Mozambique, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State Sinai Province, Islamic State's Central African Province, ISSP, ISWAP, Iyad Ag Ghaly, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jafar Dicko, Jamaat Ansarullah, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen, Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi Biladis Sudan, JASDJ, Jer Mimbantas, JNIM, Juma Awad al-Badri, Kaiwusair, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lake Chad basin, Libya, Macina Liberation Front, Malam Bako, Mali, Memetiming Memeti, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Niger, Nigeria, Operation BARKHANE, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, PKK, refugees, Russia, Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salih bin Salim bin Ubayd Abolan, Sami Jassim al-Jaburi, Samir al-Bourhan, Samir Hijazi, Sanaullah Ghafari, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SDF, Seka Musa Baluku, Sekou Muslimu, Shahab al-Muhajir, Sidan Ag Hitta, sleeper cells, Somalia, spies, Sudan, Syria, Syrian Democratic Founders, Tajikistan, Talha Al-Libi, Taliban, Tamim al-Kurdi, Tandheem Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, terrorism, TTP, Turkistan Islamic Party, Uganda, Ukraine, Umm al-Qura office, United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, Usama bin Laden, Uyghurs, Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa, Vladimir Putin, Wagner Group, wilayats, Xinjiang, Yahia Abu Amar, Yahia Djouadi, Yazid Mabrak, Yazid Mebrak, Yemen, Zu al-Nurayn office on July 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Britain Won the Spy War with the Irish Republican Army

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 July 2022

An IRA parade in Belfast || Image source

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This entry was posted in British Politics, History and tagged Agent 3007, Agent CAROL, Airey Neave, Anthony McIntyre, Army Council, assassination, Belfast Agreement, Billy McKee, Black September, Bloody Sunday, Bogside, British, Catholic, Colonel Gaddafi, counter-intelligence, Denis Donaldson, Eamon Collins, espionage, Eva Martin, Fianna, Freddie Scappaticci, Garda, Gardai, General Headquarters, Gerry Adams, GHQ, Glenfada Park, Good Friday Agreement, Green Book, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Ian Gow, ideology, INFLICTION, Intelligence, Internal Security Unit, IRA, Iran, Ireland, Irish Republican Army, ISU, Jean McConville, Joe Buck, Joe Haughey, John Haughey, John Joe Magee, John Major, Kenneth Campbell, KGB, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Lebanon, Libya, Margaret Thatcher, Martin McGartland, Martin McGuinness, MI5, MI6, Michael Oatley, mole, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Northern Ireland, Nutting Squad, Official Irish Republican Army, OIRA, Operation BANNER, Operation KENOVA, Orange Lodge, Orange Order, Palestine Liberation Organization, Peter Flanagan, PIRA, PLO, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Princess Diana, Protestant, Provisional Irish Republican Army, provocation, Real IRA, Robert Bradford, Rossville Flats, Roy McShane, Royal Ulster Constabulary, RUC, Saville Inquiry, SBS, Sean O’Callaghan, Secret Intelligence Service, sectarianism, Section IX, Security Service, Sinn Fein, Sir Anthony Berry, SIS, Soviet Union, Special Boat Service, spies, Spy War, STAKEKNIFE, Syria, terrorism, The Cook Report, The Troubles, Thomas Murphy, Tony Blair, torture, touts, UDA, UDR, Ulster, Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Defence Regiment, wetwork, Willie Carlin on July 3, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

The Challenge for Western Intelligence in Talibanized Afghanistan

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 June 2022

A U.S. helicopter above the American Embassy in Kabul, 15 August 2021 | AP

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Islamic Militancy and tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Shabab, Ashraf Ghani, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'athists, Baathism, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Communism, Defense Intelligence Agency, Donald Trump, drones, espionage, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gharbzadegi, Habatullah Akhundzada, Haqqani Network, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISI, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State’s Khorasan Province, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, Joe Biden, MOSSAD, National Resistance Front, Northern Alliance, NRF, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Panjshir, Pashtuns, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sanctions, sectarianism, sharia, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Somalia, South Vietnam, Taliban, torture, Usama bin Laden, Vietnam, weapons of mass destruction, Westoxification, WMD on June 18, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Intelligence and the English Civil Wars

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 January 2022

Review of ‘The King’s Spy’ (2021), by Mark Turnbull

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Anglicanism, Battle of Naseby, English Civil Wars, espionage, iconoclasm, Intelligence, King Charles I, Lord Digby, papist, Parliamentarians, popish, Prince Rupert, Protestantism, Puritans, religion, Roman Catholic Church, Royalists, spies, Wales on January 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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