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LABOUR MP Geoffrey Robinson dismissed allegations that he was a Czech spy as a “lie” yesterday.
Mr Robinson, who represents Coventry North, denied allegations by the Mail on Sunday that he was a cold war spy who passed on sensitive government information to the Communist government in Czechoslovakia.
The Mail claims that Czech government files show Mr Robinson met a Czech spy several times between 1966 and 1969 under the codename “Karko.”
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT
SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war