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Gareth Jones Memorial Plaque Unveiling Ceremony The Old College, Aberystwyth University 2nd May 2006 For Details of Speeches, Photos, Video Clips and Media Reporting of the event - please CLICK HERE |
| March 29th 2008 | In commemoration of Gareth's Berlin Press Conference exposure of the Holodomor, 75 years ago to the day, then please CLICK HERE for an excellent new article by Zach Barnett, who has written an article about Gareth's exposure of the Holodomor, predominantly from information gleamed from this website, as part of his forthcoming new book; 'The Stalin Beat'. | |
| November 6th 2007 | Images from every page of all Gareth's diaries from his visits to the USSR in 1931 & 1933 - including his personal observations of famine conditions in Ukraine are now published online, without transcription and available for browsing. Click HERE for the diary index page | |
| February 17th 2007 |
Recollections of Gareth Jones - Following a Canadian radio interview
about Gareth, a relative of a listener who knew Gareth, when she was a teenage
girl contacted Gareth's family with her recollections . This correspondence has
been combined with letters of Gareth's to a Welsh hill-top farming family, who
after offering him the hospitality of a bed for the night became warm friends.
Together this correspondence helps show the moral character of Gareth and
perhaps why he dared to expose the Holodomor in an article written by Nigel
Colley. Click Here to visit the web page with the article or Click Here for a printable Adobe acrobat page of the article |
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| January 16th, 2007 |
CLICK HERE for the first page a
complete transcription and relating photos of the whole of the British Public
Records Office's recently released MI5/MI6 case files detailing the
NKVD (Soviet Secret Police) links with Wostwag & specifically their General
Manager Adam Purpiss. [N.B. Adam Purpiss, 'kindly' provided Gareth and his German journalist colleague, Dr. Herbert Mueller (who invited Gareth on his fateful last journey), with the free transport, from which they were both kidnapped - Mueller was released unharmed after two days and Gareth never returned... Evidence HERE documents MI6's 34-year open case file on Mueller regarding their evidence that he too was also a Soviet agent.] These documents are put online for academic purposes to publicise the fact that Wostwag were a little known, but very important wing of the Soviet NKVD. These papers show amongst other things that Wostwag, were the de facto bankers and arms dealers to the Chinese Communist party as well as that the British secret services knew of Wostwag's Soviet links prior to Gareth's murder. This information was never passed on to their Foreign Office colleagues and in hindsight severely hindered the subsequent investigation into Gareth's murder by 'bandits' in Inner Mongolia. |
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| 27th - 30th Nov, 2006 |
Nigel Colley's Canadian Lecture Tour entitled "The
Gareth Jones Diaries - A Man Who Knew Too Much":
CLICK HERE for an extended online PowerPoint presentation Itinerary:
For photos taken and media links relating to this very enjoyable & successful tour of Canada then please click here. |
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| 23rd June 2006 |
25th Annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects, Urbana, University of
Illinois - Holodomor Presentation by:
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| 21st March 2006 |
Plaque Honouring Welsh Journalist, Gareth Jones, To Be Unveiled At
University of Wales organised by Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties
Association (UCCLA) at Aberystwyth on 2nd May 2006 - Entry Open to the Public -
Click HERE for more details. Bas
relief [Right] of Gareth Jones, prepared by Toronto sculptor, Oleh Lesiuk. For Full details of event please Click Here |
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| 16th December 2005 | Two pieces of academic background information have been added to the website, namely a 5th April 1933 letter to the Editor of The New York Times in outrage to Duranty's infamous "Russians Hungry, but Not Starving" - CLICK HERE - and a 22nd August 1933 article by the London Times' Riga correspondent noting the travel restrictions imposed on Moscow Foreign Correspondents - CLICK HERE. | |
| 19th November 2005 | Speech Delivered by Nigel Colley for the Holodomor Panykhida on Saturday 19th November 2005 at St Patrick's Cathedral, New York, entitled; "Gareth Jones - Final Victim of the 1933 Holodomor..." - Click Here | |
| 14th November 2005 | Recently discovered documents at the Public Records Office show that Dr Herbert Mueller, who was kidnapped with Gareth from a vehicle belonging to the NKVD, was a known communist and the Chinese representative of the Soviet Third International. Indeed the British MI5 had a operational file open on him from 1917 to 1951 - but unfortunately never passed on their suspicions to the Foreign Office in their 500 page investigation into Gareth's murder. For a work in progress page of my initial findings please CLICK HERE for PowerPoint presentation. | |
| 25th August 2005 | Professor Federigo Argentieri of Cabot University, Rome and coinciding with Gareth's 100th anniversary of his birth, wrote an Italian article in "Corriere della Sera",entitled "Jones, inviato speciale nel genocidio ucraino Raccontò il massacro di un popolo, Stalin lo fece uccidere" [Jones, special correspondent into the Ukrainian genocide, told of the slaughtering of people; Stalin had him killed] in which he firmly points his murder at the hands of the Stalin regime. Click here for a PDF file of the actual article or here for a web page version. | |
| 4th August 2005 | Gareth's three extremely vitriolic articles against the Stalinist regime, which were personally commissioned by William Randolph Hearst and published in January 1935. CLICK HERE for first article. In the second article, Gareth uses the phrase 'man-made famine to describe the Holodomor - CLICK HERE. In the last article, Gareth insightfully wonders if Kirov's recent murder was due 'plots within the Communist party' resulting in a new reign of Stalinist terror. CLICK HERE for third article. After having read these articles, you might well consider if they didn't have a direct bearing upon Gareth's mysterious murder exactly seven months afterwards? With thanks to all at Ukraine Weekly, but especially Irene Jarosewich, editor-in-chief of Svoboda, for bringing these amazing and previously unknown articles to our attention. | |
| 31 July 2005 | Recently posted a series of three Dr Otto Schiller's [the German agricultural attaché in Moscow] Daily Telegraph articles from August 1933 documenting his observations of Soviet famine conditions. CLICK HERE | |
| 27 June - 1st July 2005 | James Mace Memorial Panel, Donetsk, Ukraine - Siriol & Nigel Colley and others presented papers on the concealment of the Holodomor by the West. CLICK HERE for Conference Speeches. | |
| 8th January 2005 | I have just transcribed some private correspondence from Walter Duranty to H. R Knickerbocker, (from Knickerbocker's private papers at Columbia University) including from June 1933, "The “famine” is mostly bunk as I told you, except maybe in Kazakstan and the Alti," CLICK HERE | |
| 13th November 2004 | Nigel Colley's Holodomor Speech at St Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Click Here. | |
| 15th October 2004 | To view recently released Public Records Office Documents relating to Mr Purpis, of Wostwag who provided Gareth with his last mode of transport before being kidnapped, being under MI6 surveillance as NKVD agent, plus Purpiss travelling on a false Honduran Passport, Please click HERE | |
| 13th October 2004 | A new review of Manchukuo Incident by John Plant of independent Socialist magazine, New Interventions. in which he makes comparisons between Gareth and the treatment of Andrew Gilligan, former BBC Radio 4 Today correspondent, who embarrassed the Blair Government over Weapons of Mass Destruction: "Wherever the ruling classes are able to be rid of such people, the working classes are the less well armed." Click Here to read the article. | |
| 6th October 2004 | Newly acquired website acquired to be used in conjunction with new book www.garethjones.org which will eventually become the main website. | |
| 27th September 2004 | Andrew Stuttaford of the National Review has written a glowing article on his impressions of the making of Gareth, the man, his morals, roots and unswerving conscience to tell the truth regardless of the cost or even the opponent.. Click Here | |
| 9th March 2004 | "The Victim of 1930." - This End of Year article of Gareth's gives a very accurate analysis of the world political situation, which would unfold throughout the Nineteen-Thirties. Click Here | |
| 8th March 2004 | For academic purposes only , all 13 of Duranty's Pulitzer 'Prize-winning' 1931 NYT articles can be read online in text format. To quote NYT Editor, Mr Bill Keller on the content of these articles: "Pretty dreadful...It was a parroting of propaganda". Click Here to view articles | |
| 16th February 2004 | "Holodomor Bid Steps Up" by Daniel Davies of the Western Mail -"THE CAMPAIGN to strip a journalist of his Pulitzer Prize for ridiculing a Western Mail journalist who uncovered famine under Stalin is to call for backing from Democrat front runner John Kerry." Click HERE to view his article. | |
| 14th February 2004 | Correspondence form Siriol Colley to the New York Times seeking Public Apology for the denigration of Gareth Jones by their former employee Walter Duranty - including a reply from the NYT Public Office with the flippant valediction of 'CHEERS' when discussing the famine-genocide. CLICK HERE for our letters page. | |
| 11th February 2004 | Orwell's and the Holodomor in Animal Farm – A collaborative appraisal of the symbolism relating to the 1932-33 Soviet Ukrainian Famine. CLICK HERE | |
| 10th February 2004 | The Soviet Secret Police's (OGPU /NKVD) alleged involvement in Gareth's murder (as retribution for publicly exposing the Ukrainian Famine) through two pieces of independent circumstantial evidence. | |
| 10th February 2004 |
Was George Orwell's 'Farmer Jones' in Animal Farm referring to specifically to Gareth Jones? A hypothesis by Nigel Colley |
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| 16th January 2004 | Was Gareth Jones the inspiration for George Orwell's Farmer Jones in Animal Farm? Jackie Jura of Orwell Today has no doubt he was... Click here for further information | |
| 12th December 2003 | Gareth has now been included on the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial website, Click here for Details. | |
| 10th November 2003 | Dr. Siriol Colley's Columbia University Speech on Gareth Jones at the Holodomor Conference, New York. Click Here. | |
| 9th November 2003 | Roman Revkniv's 3000 word article of Gareth's friend and colleague Paul Scheffer - the first journalist to be banned by Stalin in 1933 for his honest reporting of the Five-Year Plan. Click Here. | |
| 24th October 2003 | Letter from Siriol & Nigel Colley appealing to Mr. A. O. Sulzberger, Jr, Publisher of The New York Times, citing new evidence from Gareth's correspondence of Ukrainian 'starvation' as early as 1930, to voluntarily return Walter Duranty's 1932 Pulitzer Prize. CLICK HERE for transcript. | |
| 21st October 2003 | U.S. House of Representatives Adopts resolution on 1932-33 Man-Made famine in Ukraine. CLICK HERE for full Article - Courtesy of Morgan Williams at Artukraine.com . | |
| 16th October 2003 | Diarmuid Johnson of 'Welsh Literature Abroad' / 'Llenyddiaeth Cymru Dramor' has written a compelling article on Gareth from a Welsh prospective. Click Here to view the article. | |
| 5th September 2003 | Newly researched articles by Nigel Colley including corroborating background material to an American independent reporter's famine accounts [Whiting Williams of Cleveland, Ohio], who was probably the only Western observer to write about conditions in Ukraine in the Summer 1933. Click Here | |
| 31st August 2003 | The winner of the 2003 Gareth Jones Travelling Scholarship has been awarded to John Perkins, who is proposing to undertake a two-week trip to Israel and Palestine in October. Mr Perkins, a member of staff at the University of Wales, Bangor, has worked with Christian Aid in a voluntary capacity for twelve years, and the aim of his trip is to promote peace and reconciliation between Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities in the area. On his return he intends to raise understanding of these issues in Wales by way of media opportunities and presentations to communities and churches. CLICK HERE for details. | |
| 22nd August 2003 |
BOOK REVIEW BY ROMAN REVKNIV (Ukrainian Archives and News) 'Gareth Jones A Manchukuo Incident' is a magnificent book. It reads so easily. In the first half we read Jones' own writings, and in the second we try to solve the mystery of his murder. Author Margaret Colley has made a very positive first effort to piece it all together. So skillfuly, in fact, that when you start reading you simply cannot help but recall certain fictitious scenes from an Indiana Jones adventure movie. You are lured by the seductiveness of the Orient, then empowered with historic facts as presented in TV documentaries. You meet the people that Jones met and as you share this open viewing of his letters, diaries and photographs you grow closer to him. This is indeed a very fine and delicate collection of short accounts written by an intelligent man but equally well supported and sorted in the aftermath by his intelligent, hardworking and dedicated niece - Margaret Siriol Colley. |
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| 22nd July 2003 | Prestigious US newspaper The Ukraine Weekly has reprinted our Open Letter to revoke Duranty's Pulitzer and have written an accompanying article praising Gareth's reporting and calling for the award to be given to Gareth posthumously. Click Here to read the excellent article compiled by Roxolana Woloszyn. | |
| 15th July 2003 | [The :late] eminent academic expert on the Holodomor, Dr James Mace wrote a glowing article in The Day, Ukraine's leading newspaper about Gareth and Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize. Click Here to read the full story. | |
| 26th June 2003 | Tomos Livingstone has written two articles from Gareth's own newspaper, commemorating Gareth's role in exposing the Soviet Famine (Holodomor) in The Western Mail, Cardiff: 'Strip Villain of his Evil Prize' and earlier on the 12th June 2003: 'Justice at last for Critic of Stalinism?' | |
| 24th June 2003 | In support of the campaign to revoke the 1932 Duranty Pulitzer Prize from Walter Duranty, we as relatives of Gareth have contributed with an Open Letter to the Pulitzer Organisation. CLICK HERE for details. | |
| 12th June 2003 | Martin Sieff, Chief News Analyst of American News agency UPI, has syndicated a very sympathetic article about Gareth's role in the exposure of the 1932-33 Famine-Genocide, Holodomor. CLICK HERE for a transcript | |
| 7th June 2003 |
In October 1932, Gareth predicted the Imminent Soviet Famine. Click Here for recently acquired articles from the University College of Wales. |
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| 13th May 2003 | Ukrainian Archives & News, headline story by Roman Revkniv, hails Gareth as ' Unsung Hero of Ukraine'. Click HERE for full story. Or Here for their current news. | |
| 1st April 2003 | Ukraine Europe have written a French article on the campaign to revoke the 1932 Pulitzer prize from Walter Duranty. Click HERE to read the article in French | |
| 10th March 2003 | David Williamson of The Western Mail has just written an article commemorating the 70th anniversary of Gareth's Great Soviet Famine-Genocide exposure of 1932-33, entitled: "Welshman's Stalin work still informing world ". Click HERE for a full transcript. | |
| 22nd January 2003 | Chapter 2 - Japan from the Siriol's book has now been added to the website in Adobe Acrobat format. Click Here to visit the book preview page. | |
| 22nd Dec 2002 | CLICK HERE to see a collection of Soviet Political Propaganda Posters purchased by Gareth in 1931 | |
| 16th Dec 2002 | Reprint of part of the 1988 US Congress Commission into the Ukrainian Famine of 1932 -33 vindicating Gareth's international exposure of the above catastrophe. CLICK HERE for details. | |
| 4th December 2002 | A full reproduction of the book "Experiences of Russia 1931 - A Diary" taken from Gareth's notes is now online for your perusal. CLICK HERE to read the 342kb Adobe Acrobat PDF file. | |
| 26th Nov 2002 | In 1933, Gareth had a fascinating & confidential interview with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Litvinoff [Litvinov], in which he outlined the Soviet Foreign Policy. Litvinoff had a remarkable insight, and in retrospect prophesised future global events (including Hitler's invasion of Poland, the Japanese expansion in Manchukuo and the Far East, the invasion of the Soviet Union and the Japanese conflict with America with remarkable accuracy. *CLICK HERE* to view Gareth notes of this interview. | |
| 1st September 2002 | BBC Radio Wales transmits 1st of 2 programmes produced by Steve Groves on Gareth's life. For further details visit the BBC web site (Click Here). | |
| 14th August 2002 | 'Rural Wales' articles of 1933 in addition to those found in In Search of News can be viewed HERE | |
| 14th August 2002 | Dr Mueller was probably unjustly convicted in 1946 of Japanese war crimes for 'News Intelligence'. Click HERE for a transcript of his submitted defence to the US Supreme Court. [awaiting courtesy permission to publish] | |
| 14th August 2002 | Articles on Unemployment in the thirties are now online. Click HERE to |view. | |
| 15th May 2002 | Irish Articles are now online. Click HERE to view. | |
| 11th April 2002 | American Articles are now online. Click HERE to view. | |
| 5th April 2002 | German Articles now finished. Click HERE to view | |
| 21st March 2002 | First reprint of the book available for Welsh Retail distribution end March. | |
| 15th March 2002 | Russian Articles have been added to site - German Articles to follow shortly. | |
| 6th January 2002 | Gareth's Russian articles between 1930-33 have now been included into the website, which were the basis for The Soviet Union refusing the first foreign journalist an entry visa.. Click HERE to view the offending articles. | |
| 6th October 2001 | Read the complimentary independent review by Dean Powell of The Western Mail. Click HERE to read the review. | |