We’re onto you.
Even Noam Chomsky is back pedaling.
All while spinning the narrative.
Philby and Burgess were always communists but they publicly repositioned themselves to move into establishment institutions.
Which may be what this Kessler has done. But in his case to move into the alt-right.
The start of WW2 was the era of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. So anyone who took the pro Moscow pacifist line was blackballed from the UK war effort.