CND

Pavel Stroilov has just published a remakable work: COLD WAR & THE PEACE MOVEMENT - The 'Peace Movement' in Britain in the final stages of the Cold War (mid 1970s - mid 1980s)
This paper should be taken in the context of criticism of the appointment of former CND treasurer, Baroness Cathy Ashton, as an EU commissioner. This work throws greater light on the relationship between Moscow and the peace movement than has been seen before, and should be required reading for anybody trying to understand Cold war dynamics.
 

In 2006, London MEP Gerard Batten caused great controversy when he quoted highly placed intelligence sources that denounced Romano Prodi as a "KGB asset" during Strasbourg plenary. His sources included a former deputy head of KGB, as well the dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was to pay for his dissidence with his life just a few months later.
 
This week, in the same chamber, Batten made another allegation citing highly placed sources, using still classified evidence from the archives of the Gorbachev Foundation.