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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Instead of diving further into the UK’s entanglement with the commies in the thirties, it’s time to take a look at what was going on over the pond. Much of the thirties antics over here [more…]
The Lawn Road flats in Hampstead, also known as the Isokon Building, were built in 1934 in the style known as Bauhaus or Le Corbusier. This is often known these days as brutalist and you [more…]
One of the few spy cases that was prosecuted in the thirties was the Woolwich Arsenal case. The background to this case was twofold, the Russians were spying on us anyway and they really needed [more…]
Today’s brief piece recalls a disappearing act that caused somewhat of a stir back in the day that I’m sure many of you will remember. The brief career of a rapidly rising star and his [more…]
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