[…] cynical?) Guardian and Times 15 June Two part account of Data Protection Bill, Times 4 and 5 June Policing Miners National Reporting Centre – profile of its boss, Hall of Humberside. Sunday Times 20 May. It’s operations, relations with Home Office. Guardian 23 June Chief Constables and Anderton, of Greater Manchester, on miners as […]
[…] In the final chapter Willan recounts how a young Silvio Berlusconi joined the P2 secret society a couple of years before it was exposed, and describes P2 boss Gelli’s plan to take control of Italian society by buying the media and the unions, and forming a new kind of political party – some of […]
[…] when he met Oswald in Texas and New Orleans. He saw him daily and got to know him well. Lewis claims Clay Shaw was Guy Bannister’s intelligence boss and that both Jack Ruby and Roscoe White were Camp Street regulars. Presents a convincing picture of the shadowy intelligence world in the Crescent City. The […]
[…] me letters from the US Ambassador to Cairo and Gemal Abdul Nasser ……, plus copies of correspondence between Herbert Hoover (then under secretary of state) and my boss Jim Allen of Booz Allen and Hamilton ………..’. Booz Allen remains one of the global management consultants. Copeland also made the link with the public affairs […]
[…] the revelations of Anatoli Golitsyn, informed MI5 that Harold Wilson, then leader of the Labour Party, was a spy. After a few enquiries Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s boss, told John McCone, then head of the CIA, ‘There is nothing in it’. In 1964 Angleton returned to the subject and said that he had new […]
Andreas Malm, and Shora Esmailian London: Pluto Press, 2007, P/b £17.99 At a time when Iran is in the news on a daily basis, when war and rumours of war are being constantly circulated and global warming and peak oil are finally filtering into the public consciousness, the release of this book could not … Read more
Just ten years ago the issues were so simple, the arguments so clean. The concept of hackers was cute and quaint, best understood through Hollywood thrillers like ‘War Games.’ The major media had yet to use the word ‘cyberspace,’ a term just then created by William Gibson in Neuromancer, his first masterpiece in a strange … Read more
[…] deliberately undermined by security scandals. No one as yet knows whether or not the Soviets manipulated these scandals but as H J van den Bergh, ex-head of BOSS, used to say to Gordon Winter, ‘They’d be stupid if they didn’t’. Exceptionally so. Rothschild the puppet-master? Perhaps the most interesting part of this book is […]
[…] from Thatcher. (Guardian 8th December 1983). Simkins spent several of his declining years preparing the massive tome drawing on time expired spy documents, backed by his old boss, Sir Howard Smith, Director General of MI5 until 1982. The veto was a shock since the book was commissioned by the Cabinet Office. It may have […]
[…] his Italian alter ego? Notes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1873866.stm For example, shortly after Blair became Prime Minister, Labour was forced to return a £1 million donation from the Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone after it emerged that he had lobbied Blair to delay a ban on the sport being sponsored by the tobacco industry. Martin Jacques, ‘The […]
