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

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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.

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, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, 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, George Blake, George Tenet, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, 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, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, 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.

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.

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

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023

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

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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

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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.

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