20th Century
Tyler Gatewood Kent
Those of you who have defied all tradition and read my ramblings about The Right Club may just remember the name Tyler Kent. He was the cipher clerk at the US Embassy who was passing [more…]
MI5
20th Century
The Right Club – Part 2
Part 1 was the background to the origins of the Right Club and introduced some of the members who via various other shady organisations eventually joined the club. The very first fascist organisation in the [more…]
20th Century
The Right Club – Part 1
In early April 1933 Guy Liddell of MI5 visited the Berlin Political Police to discuss intelligence co-operation with the Nazi regime and more specifically its security apparatus regarding the Communist threat. His guide was Dr [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
The Lawn Road flats
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…]
20th Century
The Woolwich Arsenal case
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…]
20th Century
The spy who came in from the Co-op
After the 1920s, it’s time to take a look at the 1930s. The spreading of the revolution was one of the top priorities of the Bolsheviks. Almost as soon as they gained power in Russia [more…]
20th Century
The Communists
This is a bit of an afterthought but having read about these elections it seems only fair to write an article about them. It seems that Stanley Baldwin was a bit of a Saggy Tits [more…]
20th Century
The Communists
The twenties were dominated by the Bolsheviks in Moscow trying to spread their revolution world wide. Marx had predicted Great Britain would be the first to succumb to his fantasies so those in Moscow made [more…]