Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Claud Cockburn" in English language version.
Francis Claud Cockburn, alias Frank Pitcairn: British. In 1933 Cockburn, a former 'Times' journalist, started his own political publication The Week which gained a reputation for having inside sources of information. In 1936, under the name Frank Pitcairn, he reported on the Spanish Civil War for the Daily Worker, later becoming its Foreign Editor. In 1939 he was a leading British Communist Party member and was said to be a leader of the Comintern in Western Europe. Throughout the Second World War he remained an active Communist.
