CND and the BBC

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been pretty much on life support since the end of the Cold War, but the prospect of Britain replacing Trident seems to be giving the CND a new lease-- at least, if you read the BBC's love letter that outlines the history of CND, yet leaves holes so large that it can only be due to gross incompetence or willful blindness. Most notably, the BBC seems to have no interest at all in CND's ties to the late, unlamented Soviet Union nor to the British Communist party. Indeed, this is their only reference to such:

But critics dismissed disarmament groups as naive, or stupid, or even a tool of the Soviet Union.

Never mind that CND, along with other (unilateral) disarmament groups, were targets for infiltration by the Soviets and often, though not always, willing fronts for KGB operations. Even the Groaniad was willing to grudgingly admit this back in 2001:

As part of its subversive activities in the west, the Soviet Union sought covertly to encourage anti-nuclear, ban-the-bomb and other such protest in many western countries as a way of weakening the defences of their enemies. Of course that does not mean that everyone who joined CND was part of a subversive plot. But Soviet officials encouraged western communist parties, such as the Communist party of Great Britain, to try to infiltrate CND at key strategic levels by getting their members elected as officers.

And that was back during the Cold War, but even with the fall of Communism, things haven't changed much. Look at CND today. The BBC makes no mention of the fact that the head of CND, Kate Hudson is a card-carrying Communist by her own admission.

If you had read your Weekly Worker, you would know that I have recently joined the Communist Party of Britain and that I am not a member of Socialist Action.

Now, this does not disqualify CND from having a voice in the Trident debate, but isn't it reasonable for the BBC to point out the leadership of CND's alliance to an ideology responsible for the murder and enslavement of hundreds of millions of people? You can bet a guinea to a gooseberry that if she'd been member of the National Front it would have been mentioned in the first paragraph.