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farrago of 1924. They did arrest Dale and the two
Special Branch officers who had leaked operational details, Inspector Hubert van Ginhoven and Sergeant Charles Jane. Again there were no prosecutions, and it is suggested that the reason was to keep secret the methods of the security services.
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officers who had been suborned by Ewer into passing information from at latest 1922. Callaghan and Morgan in a paper of 2006 criticised aspects of
Madeira's interpretation, in particular with respect to the characterisation of the FPA, founded in 1919 as a
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According to
Madeira writing in 2003, Ewer was an active Soviet agent from the early 1920s. He ran a ring from the London offices of the Federated Press of America (FPA), called a
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in May 1927, the group pulled in its horns. Lakey, a former police officer by then using the surname Allen, became an MI5 informer in 1928, giving details of two
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25:(22 October 1885 – 25 January 1977) was a British journalist, remembered mostly now for a few lines of verse. He was prominent as a writer on
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Around the beginning of 1930 Ewer left the CPGB in a public way. He disagreed with the direction of the
Comintern, and the requirement of adherence to the
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line. Declassified archives show that Ewer's anti-communist works were promoted and funded by a propaganda wing of the
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Ewer wrote in May 1947 a series of articles critical of life in Russia, and debated with the
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kept Ewer under surveillance. From 1925 to 1927, according to
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When Reporters Cross the Line: The Heroes, the Villains, the Hackers and the Spies
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jointly monitored the Ewer group's activities. Following the MI5 raid on the
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Ewer was part of a group of National Guilds League members supportive of the
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Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left
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Victor Madeira, "Moscow’s interwar infiltration of British Intelligence",
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Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence
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Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
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Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
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Spooks the Unofficial History of MI5 From M to Miss X 1909-39
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264:(1885–1970), writer and sculptor, who passed on comments of
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The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s
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The Secret War Between the Wars: MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s
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Bellamy, Joyce M.; Martin, David E.; Saville, John (1993).
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513:History of the Communist Party of Great Britain
245:, and in his acceptance of the MI5 narrative.
158:Ewer came onto the management committee of the
197:After the end of the war Ewer returned to the
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418:(online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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323:For those who bade me fight had told me so.
484:Hennessey, Thomas; Thomas, Claire (2012).
213:publications. He was an early opponent of
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732:. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 216.
327:This is the refrain of his anti-war poem
320:I gave my life for freedom - this I know:
813:. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 80.
331:, which Ewer contributed to the British
908:. eBook version: Routledge. p. 87.
877:Purvis, Stewart; Hulbert, Jeff (2013).
671:Callaghan, John; Morgan, Kevin (2006).
602:Purvis, Stewart; Hulbert, Jeff (2013).
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344:How odd of God/To choose the Jews.
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127:Communist Party of Great Britain
306:Information Research Department
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370:William Marcus Thompson
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677:The Historical Journal
630:The Historical Journal
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170:during World War I in
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88:conscientious objector
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364:Ewer married in 1912
20:(William) Norman Ewer
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192:socialist revolution
183:Workers' Dreadnought
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277:Post-war propaganda
840:Past & Present
380:Denis William Ewer
117:, William Holmes,
107:October Revolution
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