Posted on 06/13/2009 5:06:08 PM PDT by naturalman1975
THIRTY years after Britain's notorious winter of discontent, it has become clear that the election of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government not only ended a long period of Labour rule but also defeated the Left's attempt, led from the trade unions, to transfigure British parliamentary democracy into a form of Soviet state.
The leading figure in this story was the general secretary of Britain's largest union, the Transport and General Workers Union, and chairman of the Trades Union Congress's international committee, Jack Jones. In 1977, more than half the respondents to a Gallup poll named him the most powerful man in Britain. Only half as many named the prime minister, James Callaghan.
Jones died only a few weeks ago at the age of 96 and, after a series of anodyne obituaries not speaking ill of the dead, the brief moratorium on his reputation was suitably ended by one of his KGB case officers, Oleg Gordievsky, the best-known surviving KGB defector to the British.
He confirmed this year that Jones was a Soviet agent.
"I was his last case officer, meeting him for the final time in 1984 at Fulham (six years after Jones's retirement), together with his wife, who had been a Comintern agent since the mid-1930s," Gordievsky wrote in April. "I handed out to him a small amount of cash. From 1981, I had had the pleasure of reading volumes of his files, which were kept in the British department of the KGB until 1986, when they were passed on to the archive."
The idea that Jones had a close collaborative relationship with the Soviet side in the Cold War will surprise and perhaps alarm many who recall how influential he was in British politics during his prime.
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Move along, nothing here to see, Liberal Media says so....
Move along!....
Wow!
Basically fits the pattern. The Soviets ran liberalism in the West, and anyone who pointed that out was a hate-monger. You have to give them credit...they were good.
Now, I wonder how deeply they penetrated the US. McCarthy skimmed the surface, but no doubt, there is a lot more there.
This is the kind of scum running our own country now. We must steel ourselves for the possibility of needing to throw off their yoke by any means necessary. We are not there yet but the trend is not good.
I wonder who runs it now. I would suspect that the Russians are still involved, plus other countries, as well.
I think a number of parties have their finger in the psychological warfare pie, all jockeying for the biggest share of the spoils, if and when their agents can finally destroy the US.
Whoever owns and operates Obama is almost in the home stretch. I think that Obama is serving several masters, and he will play them against each other. In the end, I believe he will choose Islam.
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