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THE OPEN CONSPIRACY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE CASE OF W. N. EWER, COMMUNIST AND ANTI-COMMUNIST

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2006

JOHN CALLAGHAN  and
KEVIN MORGAN
JOHN CALLAGHAN
Affiliation:
University of Wolverhampton
KEVIN MORGAN
Affiliation:
University of Wolverhampton
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Abstract

This article is a response to an account of a communist espionage circle which appeared in this journal in 2003. It argues that the original article is seriously misleading because of its apparently exclusive reliance on previously classified intelligence documents and the interpretations found within them. Combined with a failure to provide an appropriate historical context, particularly concerning the politics of the drama's central figure – the Daily Herald journalist W. N. Ewer – and a tendency to import questionable value judgements into the narrative, the original piece substitutes the secret policeman's opinions for a real history of its subject-matter.

Type
Communication
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The Historical Journal , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 549 - 564
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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