[lit-ideas] guerre froide

  • From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:31:55 +0200

in the hot war it was even more complicated (viz. the best treatise on the
subject is jean valtin, know in English as 'out of the night', even the
mighty McCarthy and Cohen could not figure out whether krebs was or wasn't
a soviet spy.....


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That's true, but this was before McCarthy and the Cold War. Unfortunately
> I cannot find the source where I read this.
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> O.K.
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>   On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:49 AM, palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>  here m d mcevoy points out to something not very visible to most, there
> was one period in which everyone was a soviet spy, to name a few t kollek,
> a koestler, pontecorvo Sr., willy brandt, kalugin, p. secchia, not to
> mention the usual suspects philby father and son....assorted kings
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> I do honestly think that a recasting of the problem would be welcome.
> the soviet/anybody else conflict is not quite a "300" like battle of good
> and evil with biceps replaced by nukes and spies.
> was benjamin someone that would have given information to the Nkvd?
> possibly about lingerie shosp in the arcade,s so what...
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> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Donal McEvoy 
> <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> >Many thanks, archives in Washington D.C as well as others show that he
> was a Soviet spy.>
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> Don't archives in Washington D.C. show that, at some time or other, most
> people were Soviet spies?
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> Donal
> Asking on behalf of Pete Seeger
> London
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>   On Monday, 17 March 2014, 23:10, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>   Many thanks, archives in Washington D.C as well as others show that he
> was a Soviet spy. It's hardly a philosophical issue.
>
> O.K.
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>   On Monday, March 17, 2014 11:28 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> *In a recent book I'm now sorry I mentioned it was said that Benjamin
> committed suicide,
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> Omar responded
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> 'It wasn't a suicide, but then he was a Soviet spy. This looks like some
> elementary school textbook.'
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> *I asked Omar how this was known, that Benjamin was a 'Soviet spy,' and
> then posted links to three accounts of Benjamin's death just in case anyone
> would be interested in the controversy surrounding it.
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> Omar responded
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> 'I am saying it because he was. Not sure why you would ask for additional
> reasons for saying it.'
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> *This is, I grant, a powerful argument.
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> Robert Paul
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