Prominent (s)-politiker sovjetisk inflytandeagent

Mitt i skandalerna kring Labourledaren

Jeremy Corbyns öppna antisemitism

exploderar en gammal skandal på

nytt i det svårt härjade partiet:

Det bekräftas nu att Labourledaren

Michael Foot (ordf 1980-83) var

mångårig sovjetisk inflytandeagent.

Säkerhetstjänsten varnade t o m

Drottning Elisabeth för att ens

överväga att utnämna honom till

premiärminister....

Tilläggas bör att överste Oleg Gordievskij,
som avslöjade Foot, var en av de kalla
krigets okända hjältar.

KGB-rezident i Köpenhamn 1965-82

rekryterades han av MI6 via danska

säkerhetstjänsten och gjorde den

fria världen oskattbara tjänster under

en lång period. Efter sitt avhopp 1985
har han varit en flitig författare. 

Han adlades också i Storbritannien
för sina stora insatser 2007.

Mera om just de sovjetiska inflytande-

agenternas destruktiva arbete.

Personer som Georg Branting, Sverker

Åström och Pierre Schori har alltför
länge tillåtits operera i det tysta
i Sverige....

Välinformerade Intellnews skriver om Foot:

"Foot, a staunch and vocal representative of the postwar

British left, was a member of parliament for over 40 years,

eventually serving as leader of the House of Commons.

rose to the post of deputy leader of the Labour Party

and in 1980 succeeded Jim Callahan as head of the

Party. But he stepped down in 1983 in the aftermath

of Labour’s largest electoral defeat in over

half a century.

Two years later, in 1985, Oleg Gordievsky, a colonel

in the Soviet KGB, defected to Britain and disclosed that

he had been a double spy for the British from 1974

until his defection.

In 1995, Gordievsky chronicled his years as a KGB officer

and his espionage for Britain in a memoir, entitled Next

Stop Execution. The book was abridged and serialized

in the London-based Times newspaper. In it, Gordievsky

claimed that Foot had been a Soviet “agent of influence”

and was codenamed “Agent BOOT” by the KGB. Foot

proceeded to sue The Times for libel, after the paper

published a leading article headlined “KGB: Michael Foot

was our agent”. The Labour Party politician won the lawsuit

and was awarded financial restitution from the paper.

This past week, however, the allegations about Foot’s

connections with Soviet intelligence resurfaced with the

publication of The Spy and the Traitor, a new book

chronicling the life and exploits of Gordievsky. In the

book, Times columnist and author Ben Macintyre alleges

that Gordievsky’s 1995 allegations about Foot were

accurate and that Gordievsky passed them on to British

intelligence before openly defecting to Britain.

According to Macintyre, Gordievsky briefed Baron

Armstrong of Ilminster, a senior civil servant and

cabinet secretary to British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher.

Lord Armstrong, a well-connected veteran of British

politics, in turn communicated the information to the

Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the summer of

1982, says Macintyre. The Times columnist alleges

that MI6 received specific information from Lord Armstrong,

according to which Foot had been in contact with the KGB

for years and that he had been paid the equivalent of

£37,000 ($49,000) in today’s money for his services.

The spy agency eventually determined that Foot may

not himself have been conscious that the Soviets were

using him as an agent of influence.

But MI6 officials viewed Gordievsky’s allegations

significant enough to justify a warning given to Queen

Elizabeth II, in case the Labour Party won the 1983

general election and Foot became Britain’s prime

minister."