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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.

An Islamic State ‘Distinguished Martyr’ Who Defected From the Taliban

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 March 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abdallah ibn Salam, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Malik al-Tamimi, Abu Malik al-Tamimi al-Najdi, Abu Mubashir, Abu Omar al-Khorasani, Abu Umar al-Khorasani, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Anas al-Nashwan, Arab conquests, Banu Qaynuqa tribe, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, caliphate, Christianity, Donald Trump, Hafiz Saeed Khan, Haji Rabbani, ideology, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Jews, Libya, mujahideen, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, sectarianism, Soviet Union, Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, terrorism, TTP, Zia ul-Haq on March 17, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 March 2024

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Ana Belen Montes, Axis, Bay of Piglets, Bill Clinton, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, CCP, Chavista, Chile, Chilean coup, China, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, colonialism, Commandante, Communism, Communist Cuba, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Defense Intelligence Agency, DGI, DI, DIA, Dirección de Inteligencia, Dirección General de Inteligencia, espionage, Evo Morales, FBI, Fidel Castro, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Services Institute, General Intelligence Directorate, INR, Intelligence, Intelligence Directorate, Iran, Israel, James Olson, Justice Department, Kendall Myers, KGB, La Red Avispa, Marta Rita Velasquez, Marxism, NSC, Peronism, Raul Castro, Red China, Rolando Cubela Secades, Russia, Salvador Allende, South Vietnam, SOUTHCOM, Soviet Union, spies, State Department, The WASP Network, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. National Security Council, United States, United States Southern Command, USAID, Victor Manuel Rocha on March 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Aaron Bushnell Can’t Be a Political Martyr If You Cover Up His Politics

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Israel and tagged Aaron Bushnell, active measures, activism, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, colonialism, Communism, genocide, HAMAS, Holocaust, IDF, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Jews, Mark Joseph Stern, Marxism-Leninism, Mizrahim, Nazism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, PFLP, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, South Vietnam, Soviet Union, terrorism, Thich Quang Duc on February 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, active measures, Air France Flight 139, anti-Zionism, assassination, Baader-Meinhof Gang. Thomas Reuter, Ba’athism, Baruch Bar-Lev, Benny Peled, Black September, Brigitte Kuhlmann, Brigitte Schulz, Bruce MacKenzie, Charles Bronson, Che Guevara Group Gaza Brigade, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Dan Shomron, David Opatoshu, Dawson’s Field hijackings, Doctor’s Plot, Dora Bloch, East Germany, Eddie Constantine, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Al Flight LY512, Entebbe raid, FATAH, Gamal Abdel Nasser, genocide, George Habash, Greek Orthodox Christian, Horst Buchholz, hostages, ideology, IDF, Idi Amin, Iraq, Israel, Israel Defence Force, John Saxon, Jomo Kenyatta, Jordan, Joseph Stalin, Kenya, KGB, Khalil al-Wazir, Libya, Marxism-Leninism, Menachem Begin, Michel Bacos, Mivtsa Yonatan, MOSSAD, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Munich massacre, Nairobi five, Nazis, October 7 Pogrom, Operation THUNDERBOLT, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Operation YONATAN, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, Peter Finch, PFLP, PLO, political warfare, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, RAF, Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells, Revolutionäre Zellen, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Sayeret Matkal, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Operations Group, STASI, Stephen Macht, Syria, Uganda, Wadi Haddad, Wilfried Böse, Yasser Arafat, Yekutiel Adam, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin, Yonatan Netanyahu, Yoni Netanyahu on February 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Russia’s Hope Dies With Alexey Navalny

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Alexander Mishkin, Alexander Petrov, Alexei Navalny, Alexey Navalny, Amnesty International, Anatoliy Chepiga, Andrei Karlov, Anti-Corruption Foundation, assassination, autocracy, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Benigno Aquino, Beslan school siege, Charlie Rowley, CIA, Cold War, Communism, corruption, Crimea, Dawn Sturgess, democracy, Dmitri Medvedev, Donald Trump, Donbas, Dozhd, FBK, FSB, Georgia, Gospels, Grigory Yavlinsky, GRU, Harry Potter, honour, Igor Girkin, Igor Strelkov, Illegals, Institute of Forensic Science, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jews, jihadism, Kirovles case, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, liberalism, Little Green Men, Luna Lovegood, Maksym Kuzminov, Maxim Ustinov, Mikhail Kasyanov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Zygar, NAROD, National Russian Liberation Movement, nationalism, Nikita Isaev, Nikolai Patrushev, Novichok, Oleg Navalny, opposition, Orthodox Christianity, PARNAS, People’s Alliance, People’s Freedom Party, political protests, Progress Party, Ramzan Kadyrov, repression, Republican Party of Russia, Rick and Morty, Rick Sanchez, RT, Ruslan Boshirov, Ruslan Magomedragimov, Russia, Russia of the Future, Russia Today, Russian liberals, Russian March, Second Chechen War, September 11, Sergey Skripal, Shamil Basayev, Soviet Union, Spetsnaz, Syria, Timur Kuashev, tragedy, Ukraine, ultra-nationalism, Valery Boyarinev, Vasili Mitrokhin, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Zolotov, Vladimir Putin, Voldemort, War on Terror, Yabloko Party, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Yulia Navalnaya, Yulia Skripal on February 20, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin Didn’t Go Quite As He Planned

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Alsu Kurmasheva, assassination, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Central Intelligence Agency, Chechnya, Cheka, China, Christianity, CIA, Cold War, Communism, conspiracy theories, Dagestan, ethnic cleansing, Evan Gershkovich, FSB, George W. Bush, History, Hungary, Intelligence, Islam, Jews, jihadism, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, KGB, Left-wing, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Custine, Muslims, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NSA, Orthodox Christianity, Poland, post-liberal, propaganda, religion, revisionism, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, secret police, Serbs, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, special services, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, Ukraine, Useful Idiots, Vadim Krasikov, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, War on Terror, Yugoslavia, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili on February 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The “Genocide” Case Against Israel at the International Court of Justice is a Political Sham

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged active measures, Adolf Eichmann, African National Congress, ANC, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, China, Communism, crimes against humanity, Cyril Ramaphosa, Dreyfus affair, Gaza, genocide, Genocide Convention, HAMAS, Holodomor, human rights, humanitarian aid, ICC, ICJ, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law, international law, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khaled Qaddoumi, Kurt Waldheim, lawfare, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow Trials, Muslims, Nazis, Nelson Mandela, Nuremberg Trials, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Omar al-Bashir, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, political warfare, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Russia, Second World War, show trial, South Africa, Soviet Union, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Umar al-Bashir, United Nations, United States, UNRWA, Vladimir Putin, war crimes, World Court, Yemen on January 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Evidence is Now Clear: Iran Was Behind Every Aspect of the October 7 Pogrom in Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 January 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Afghanistan, Al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Alawis, Alawites, Ali Khamenei, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Ansarallah, Artesh, Axis of Resistance, Barack Obama, Basel Mahadi, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Esmail Qaani, Ezzatollah Zarghami, Five Eyes, Gaza, Gaza War, Ghazi Hamad, Gholam Ali Rashid, HAMAS, Hassan Hoballah, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Islamism, Ismail Haniyeh, Ismailism, Israel, Joe Biden, Joint Operations Chamber, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Liwa Fatemiyoun, Liwa Fatemiyun, Liwa Zainebiyoun, Liwa Zaynabiyun, missiles, Mohsen Rafighdoost, Muslim Brotherhood, National Defence Forces, NDF, October 7 Pogrom, Osama Hamdan, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, Popular Committees, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ramazan Sharif, Resistance Axis, Saleh al-Aruri, Shabiha, Shi'a militias, Shi’a jihadism, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Yemen, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ziyad al-Nakhala on January 24, 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.

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