History Disjointed continued

And as if to reinforce the earlier post, I come across this two part article in The Spectator (starting November 7th, 2009, Reaching Through the Iron Curtain by Pavel Stroliov). The accusation and evidence are not quite as dramatic as the article makes it out to be. None-the-less, in the seventies and eighties, most observers that attempted to make out that there was ideological sympathy between western labor and socialist political parties and the Soviet Union and that there was likely to be some level of privileged communication and coordination of policies/actions would have been traduced as a troglodyte unable to understand the differences between these parties.

Yet here we are with archival materials indicating that indeed there were such levels of communication and coordination. So who were the ideological buffoons and who were the poltroons?