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SUMMARY:'A Spectre is Haunting the Atlantic': Anglo-American Conservatism 
 and the Transatlantic Threat between the World Wars - Professor Kathryn Ol
 msted (University of California\, Davis)
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CONTACT:Vickie Freer
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines British and American anticommunist conspir
 acy\ntheories in the 1920s and 1930s. In both countries\, former wartime\n
 intelligence agency chiefs set up private intelligence networks in the\npo
 st-World War I era to spy upon and blacklist radicals -- and\, not\nincide
 ntally\, to monitor and control labour union leaders. Also in\nboth countr
 ies\, businessmen created and lavishly funded anticommunist propaganda org
 anizations. The propagandists in each country exploited quite different an
 xieties\, yet they shared the same goal: to use the fear of communism as a
  weapon in the struggle against organized Labour.\n\nBio:\nKathy Olmsted i
 s professor and chair of history at the University of\nCalifornia\, Davis.
  She is the author of _Challenging the Secret\nGovernment: The Post-Waterg
 ate Investigations of the CIA and FBI\;_\n_Red Spy Queen: A Biography of E
 lizabeth Bentley_\; and _Real Enemies:\nConspiracy Theories and American D
 emocracy\, World War I to 9/11_
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