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Journalist whitewashes treason

By Gerard Jackson
No. 25, 10-16 February 1998

Writing in The Weekend Australian Review (25/1/97)
Elizabeth Wynhausen did her best to present ex-members of
the defunct Australian Communist Party as nothing more
than dedicated idealists who were misunderstood and
persecuted by conservative governments. This is a lie. The
Communist Party of Australia (CPA) was an instrument of
the late Soviet Union. It not only supported every sickening
twist and murderous turn of Soviet foreign policy it took its
orders directly from the Kremlin. The sole object of the Party's existence was
not merely to promote the interests of Soviet tyranny, even in its most
malevolent form, but to destroy Australian democracy and impose a
Soviet-style state — complete with Gulag, firing squad etc.— that would be
utterly subservient to the Kremlin. In short, the CPA was guilty of treason.

None of the above was even alluded to by the left-wing Wynhausen, let alone
mentioned. Instead, we got self-serving ideological claptrap that absurdly
claimed that the duly elected conservative governments of Robert Menzies
were "repressive regimes" (sic); how those who were declared as enemies by
these same conservative governments were forced into a "Kafka-esque"
existence. This piece of ideological nonsense was followed by the vicious claim
that the royal commission that followed the Petrov affair was a witch-hunt.
(Petrov was the KGB Resident in Australia who defected in 1954.) To
support this libel she asserted that the commission failed to find any evidence of
a spy ring. Ergo: the Soviets were not spying on Australia, communists were
loyal to their country and Petrov was a liar. Well, we will soon see who the
real liar is.

The recent release of the Venona papers by America's National Security
Agency makes it absolutely clear that the Soviets had a very active spy ring
operating in Australia. These papers confirmed the commission's findings that a
Soviet spy ring had been operating in the country up to 1949 under the NKGB
(later known as the KGB) residency of Semyon Makyrov. Under Makyrov
NKGB agents had quickly penetrated the Australian Ministry of External
Affairs. The reason why the Soviets ceased operations in 1949 is that Kim
Philby had informed them that the ring's activities were being monitored. He
obtained this intelligence in his role as SIS liaison officer in Washington.
Furthermore, two of Makyrov's most important agents, James Hill, codenamed
Tourist, and Ian Milner, codenamed Bur, defected to the East. (Perhaps Ms
Wynhausen will explain to readers how all of this escaped her eagle-like
attention).

With the left-winger's usual contempt for the truth she continued her whitewash
by defending Rupert Lockwood, a communist and 'journalist', who had been
accused of passing information on to a Soviet agent. However, her defence
was of a peculiar kind. Rather than try tell us why Lockwood was innocent of
any wrongdoing she described, instead, the alleged suffering of his family, as if
their embarrassment was proof of his innocence. But even Wynhausen must
know that Lockwood was the author of the infamous Document 'J' that was
actually typed inside the Soviet embassy by Lockwood. The document was a
profile of politicians, public servants and members of the press gallery. It was
scathingly and accurately described by the commission as a "Farrago of fact,
filth and fiction." The real truth is that Lockwood was a dedicated Soviet agent
of influence, a willing instrument of Soviet tyranny and treachery.

J. N Rawling, who joined the CPA in 1925 and left in disgust in 1939, wrote:
"They [communist parties] are merely the instruments of the Russian Foreign
Office and the Kremlin, ready to frame or change policies and manufacture
‘justification' for them on receipt of cabled instructions from Moscow."

I have to admit that reading the likes of Wynhausen fills me with loathing. I
despise, as does any decent person, humbug and hypocrisy in any form,
specially when mixed with lying. But coming from a journalist it takes on a
particularly despicable dimension. After all, these are people who present
themselves to the public as guardians of the truth, the media gatekeepers
whose incorruptible duty is to safeguard the passage of truth and defend the
media gate against those who would attack the Public's Right to Know.

Once again — Humbug! Unfortunately left-wing ideology dominates the
Australian media. As long as this situation continues the "Public's Right to
Know" will be just an empty, self-serving journalistic slogan.


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