By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 July 2026
Britain’s Worst Spy Scandal Was Rooted in the Labour Left’s Delusions About the Soviet Union
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Tag Archives: Second World War
The Structure of the Nazi Regime, the Wannsee Conference, and the Holocaust Decision
The Wannsee Protocol (English Translation)
Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide
A Note on the Early Tensions in the Soviet Active Measures Using Armenians
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 April 2026
In the early phase of the Soviet Union instrumentalising the Armenian desire for the 1915-16 massacres in the Ottoman Empire to be recognised as genocide, in the 1950s and early 1960s, Moscow allowed histories to be written about 1915, mostly by Armenians. The villains in these books were the Young Turks and the Armenian Dashnak revolutionaries, since both were nationalists, and the former was supposedly supported by British “imperialists”. This was troublesome at a popular level in Soviet Armenia.
This was merely one indication of the tensions inherent to using the Armenian national tragedy for Communist active measures. The whole point was to raise the salience of 1915 in Armenian memory, identity, and political organisation had to be raised: that was how Turkey would be pressured and Ankara’s relations with other NATO States strained. But in creating the space for this, the Soviets were running the risk the Armenians would develop ideas of their own.
Continue readingRuth Morton and British Intelligence in the Falklands War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 December 2025
An article appeared today about an interview given by Ruth Morton, an Uruguayan woman of British descent in her late 90s, who says she worked for British intelligence during the Falklands War. Morton, whose family had served the British war effort in the 1940s, says that she was involved in spying on the Argentine submarine base at Mar del Plata, on the coast of north-eastern Argentina, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, adjacent to the border with Uruguay. A translation of the article is given below.
The Soviet Propaganda and Terrorism Offensive Against Pinochet’s Chile
Tolkien, the Second World War, and Fighting Evil Without Becoming Evil
A Note on the History of Uruguay to 1945
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 October 2025
“Banda Oriental del Uruguay” (the Eastern Bank of the [Rio/River] Uruguay) was a zone populated by four main Native tribes, all of them nomadic hunter-gatherers and fisherman, whose chiefdoms were more decentralised assemblages than geographic settlements. The lack of resources and population was among the reasons Uruguay was claimed relatively late by the Spanish, after the arrival of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516, and remained largely uninhabited for about a century. The first permanent Spanish settlement in Uruguay was the Jesuit mission at Santo Domingo de Soriano founded in 1624. Cattle were introduced into Uruguay about a decade earlier and some farmers entered the territory, but it was only after Uruguay became a strategic flash-point on the contested Spanish-Portuguese frontier later in the seventeenth century that the Spanish started to seriously settle Uruguay.
Nazis, Augusto Pinochet, and Soviet Propaganda
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2025
