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Britain’s Worst Spy Scandal Was Rooted in the Labour Left’s Delusions About the Soviet Union

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 July 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolph Hitler, Africa, Anglosphere, Anthony Blunt, anti-imperialism, Australia, Axis, Barnett Stross, Britain, British Empire, Cambridge spies, Canada, Captive Nations, China, Christopher Andrew, Clement Attlee, Clive Mildoon, Co-operative Party, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Czechoslovakia, David Nobbs, Dominions, Edward Heath, English National Party, espionage, FDR, First World War, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harold Laski, Harold Wilson, Harry Dexter White, Harry Truman, Henry Wallace, Ian Brady, IRA, Irish Republican Army, James Callaghan, Jeremy Corbyn, Jim Callaghan, John Platts-Mills, John Stonehouse, Josef Frolik, Joseph Stalin, Karel Pravec, Kim Philby, Konni Zilliacus, Korean War, Labour Party, Laurence Duggan, Magnificent Five, Margaret Thatcher, McCarthyism, MI5, MI6, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Moors murderers, multiple personality disorder, Nazism, Postmaster General, Profumo affair, Reggie Perrin, Rhodesia, Russia, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Sheila Buckley, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Stanley Evans, State Security, StB, Suez crisis, Sybil, Tom Driberg, Tony Benn, treason, United States, USSR, Will Owen, Willy Brandt on July 27, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

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.

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.

The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, agitprop, Anti-COMINTERN Pact, Antisemitism, Axis, Baltics, BBC, Blitzkrieg, Britain, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cairo Conference, Cambridge spies, capitalism, Casablanca Conference, CCP, Charles Robertson, Cheka, Chekists, Chetniks, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Chinese Communist Party, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, collaborators, collectivisation, Communism, Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party USA, CPUSA, Croats, D-Day, democracy, Draža Mihailović, espionage, FDR, Finland, Fitzroy Maclean, France, Frank Coe, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Georgi Dimitrov, Germany, Great Fatherland War, Great Patriotic War, Great Terror, GULAG, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Imperialism, industrialisation, Intelligence, Iron Curtain, Ivan Yeaton, James Klugmann, Japan, Joseph E. Davies, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Jugoslavija, Katyn massacre, KGB, Korean War, Kuomintang, Lend-Lease, Leon Trotsky, Lev Mekhlis, Loy Henderson, Magnificent Five, Mao Zedong, Maxim Litvinov, MI6, militant atheism, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Munich Agreement, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nazism, New Deal, NKVD, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation OVERLORD, Operation PIKE, Partisans, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Poland, Potsdam Conference, propaganda, PURKKA, Ray Atherton, Red Army, Richard Sorge, Robert F. Kelley, Rudolf Hess, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, Serbia, Shoah, show trials, SIS, slaves, Solomon Adler, Soviet Empire, Soviet Union, Spanish civil war, Special Operations Executive, spies, Stalin’s War, Suvorov hypothesis, Suvorov thesis, Tehran Conference, totalitarianism, Truman Doctrine, Ukraine, ULTRA secret, United States, VENONA, Viktor Suvorov, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Potemkin, Vladimir Rezun, Vozhd, Vyacheslav Molotov, Walter Duranty, Warsaw Uprising, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Yalta Conference, Yezhovshchina, Yugoslavia on May 31, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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

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.

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.

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

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 Capture of Australia’s Intelligence System

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged ABC, Aldrich Ames, ASIO, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, China, Christopher Boyce, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Cook Report, counter-intelligence, Croatian Six, Directorate K, Donald Maclean, espionage, false flag, FCD, First Chief Directorate, Five Eyes, Four Corners, George Sadil, Gerontiy Lazovik, Gough Whitlam, GRU, Guy Burgess, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Ian George Peacock, Intelligence, John Kerr, KGB, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Labor, Lionel Murphy, Magnificent Five, Main Adversary, MI6, MIRA, mole, Moscow Centre, Nikita Khrushchev, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Kalugin, Pine Gap, Robert Hanssen, Russian Orthodox Church, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Secret Speech, SIS, Socialist Commonwealth, SOE, Soviet military intelligence, Soviet Union, Special Operations Executive, spies, spy, SVR, Tasmania, Terror, traitors, treason, Unmasking the Australian Spy Who Sold Secrets to Russia, Vasili Mitrokhin, VENONA, Yuri Andropov, Yuri Shmatkov on June 25, 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.

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.

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