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Elizabeth Bentley, Part Four

12th February 2025 well_chuffed 2727 Comments

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…]

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Whittaker Chambers, Part Three

20th November 2024 well_chuffed 2274 Comments

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…]

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The Venona Project, Part Two

30th October 2024 well_chuffed 2402 Comments

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…]

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PMQs with Going Postal

7th October 2020 Going Postal 3769 Comments

Agenda Prime Minister’s Question Time Ten Minute Rule Motion: Conveyancing Standards Marco Longhi MP (Dudley North, Conservative) Legislation: Pension Schemes Bill [Lords]: Second Reading Motion: Motion to approve RegulatIons related to Public Health following the [more…]

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Der Führer Speaks to the Nation

9th September 2020 Going Postal 2738 Comments

Ed. Boris Johnson, ruler by diktat, follower of science – those masks really work you know, decrees arbitrary imprisonment for the English population again, even though no one is dying anymore and the pandemic, if [more…]

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Prime Minister’s Diktat Time

2nd September 2020 Going Postal 3949 Comments

Ed. While I doubt many of us believe Boris Johnson’s in charge of much of anything (He’s even devolved ‘Green’ policy to Carrie Symonds for a quiet life), he’s the one at the top and [more…]

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PMQs with Going Postal

17th June 2020 Going Postal 4081 Comments

Agenda Prime Minister’s Question Time   Featured image Robert Pittman – Licence CC BY-ND 2.0  

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