Elections
What is Farage up to?
Many of GP’s people who don’t read the comments are kippers. They may not be too impressed with this but I have to say at the outset I prefer Batten to Farage but he doesn’t [more…]
Articles by well_chuffed
20th Century
The Atomic Spies, Part One
Some previous articles detailed how the USSR infiltrated the USA and UK using spies and agents of influence. When they got wind of the atomic bomb project, the Soviets put in a lot of effort [more…]
20th Century
7 – The defection of Igor Gouzenko
On September 5th 1946 Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk working in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa defected. He had been told he was going back to the socialist paradise that was the USSR and decided [more…]
20th Century
6 – Harry Hopkins
When FDR was Governor of New York State he needed some one to run his Welfare Program. That person was Harry and from that point they were friends and colleagues for the rest of their [more…]
20th Century
5 – The Conferences
One of the more noticeable phenomena of WW2 was the number of conferences between the Allied Leaders. Without Facebook and Facetime they just had to meet physically; they did have scrambled telephone calls though, unbeknown [more…]
20th Century
3 – Whittaker Chambers
In 1938 Whittaker Chambers defected. Well they call it defected but he was an American in the USA who worked for the NKVD but saw the light and severed relations with the Soviets. Defection is [more…]
20th Century
4 – Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Bentley was another American born Soviet agent who turned against the Soviets. Whittaker Chambers became disillusioned with the Communists. Elizabeth was the woman scorned. She was the lover of Jacob Golos who ran quite [more…]
20th Century
2 – The Venona Project
The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]
20th Century
The Rosa Klebbs of the Communist World
As you start to look around at the history of the Communists, one thing hits you fairly and squarely between the eyes. The women who were heavily involved were almost always munters. Here is a [more…]