[…] official who served as director general of the National Economic Development Council (Neddy) from 1973 to 1977. This is a diary of those years. As befitted a boss of this quintessentially consensus-minded institution, McIntosh was a firm believer in getting the unions (and everyone else) round a piece of furniture that, during the crisis […]
Introduction There are a couple of interesting chapters in Chapman Pincher’s recent The Truth About Dirty Tricks, (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991), especially the one about Harold Wilson’s ‘spymaster’, the late George Wigg; but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher’s primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic … Read more
[…] organisation, The Hakluyt Foundation, which channels intelligence from the agency to big companies and gathers information from its own contacts. It is run by Tomlinson’s old MI6 boss, Christopher James, who retired from the agency in 1994. Other directors include a former Royal Dutch Shell managing director and a one-time Home Office permanent secretary.’ […]
[…] Hounam cites John McNaughton, Special Council at the DoD and ‘the Pentagon’s principal civilian war planner’ () as a likely Cyanide instigator. He was also Daniel Ellsberg’s boss on compiling the Pentagon Papers, and had recently withdrawn classified access to the office safe after suspecting Ellsberg’s unauthorised probings.( ) We can only speculate about […]
[…] data Gould and Mattinson used to persuade Labour leaders and much of the media to accept the creation of New Labour? The spoils of war Mattinson’s overall boss at Chime Communications, Lord Bell, was one of the beneficiaries of taxpayers’ largesse through contracts issued by the Blair government for post-invasion work in Iraq. Bell’s […]
[…] central figures in the drama with lives already draped in concealment, to whom we might properly attribute another layer of deception. Gay gangster, gay businessman, gay FBI boss, gay anti- Castro activist and, perhaps, emerging gay patsy. As Dean Andrews might have said, ‘How d’you like them apples?’ Mr Liebeler. I am advised by […]
[…] topics that really should have been included. I would probably include a wider selection of secret and security services and their misdeeds, including South Africa’s apartheid era BOSS and the French sinkers of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior; an investigation into the murky world of mineral mining in Central Africa is long overdue; Charles Higham’s Trading […]
[…] probably worked for the CIA in some covert capacity, and on 22nd November 1963 had been in a New Orleans courtroom with Carlos Marcello, the Louisiana mafia boss, for whom he was working as a private investigator. (It was widely believed that Ferrie had flown Marcello back from Mexico after Bobby Kennedy had him […]
[…] had access to all information concerning the developments of the arsenal of toxic substances in the CIA.(12) After a trip to Paris and Norway, Olsen told his boss, Lt. Colonel Ruwet, that he was so unhappy that he would prefer to be discharged or fired to carrying on with his work. This led to […]
[…] given to the military during the massacres in 1965 which left perhaps 250,000 dead. Somehow Kadane had persuaded a senior CIA agent in Indonesia and his diplomatic boss at the time to talk, on the record. The story was run, briefly, in the British serious press. A couple of months later Peter Dale Scott […]
