[…] perhaps most surprising, is the way that Israeli governments have collaborated in this. Fernandes’ book is very densely argued and comes with an overwhelming mass of foot notes. He touches on so many issues that he left this reader with a huge number of references to chase up. This is an important book that […]
[…] which, to quote from her letter of complaint to the Inspector-General of the CIA, she ‘went on a week-long canoe trip in the Thousand Island area of New York. There, most of my conscious thoughts were sexual fantasies. I have never had such an episode in my life……’ A period of intense activity was […]
[…] morals and sapping the nation’s ability to see the war through to a grim conclusion. Allen was an easy target, she had once modelled a sex manual for women. She rose to the bait and sued. Hoare describes the trial, which lasted for 7 days in May and June 1918, with great thoroughness. It […]
[…] as a mixture of fact and fiction. I invited him to correct any errors we had made but have heard nothing.) Fielding’s account of McLean’s life makes it plain that McLean was an MI6 officer for most, if not all, of the post-war period. If true, Fielding’s claim above about Julian Amery is new. RR
[…] clean house in the intelligence services? In one sense it is a pity that Routledge gave the ‘Wilson plots’ material such short shrift and gives us nothing new. In another maybe we should be grateful that a mainstream political journalist has taken some of this parapolitical material on board, even if he doesn’t do […]
[…] refers to the Ulster UDI position developed in the mid-1970s but does not root this in the contradictions of the Ulster Workers Council strike of 1974. He notes that the Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) fared more poorly than its (Progressive Unionist Party) (PUP) counterpart in elections, but does not grasp that this is precisely […]
[…] (personal information). Alan Charles Andrews: MI6 technical side 1965-74 (personal information). Denis Jackson: MI6 under Andrews. Derek Salmon: MI6 under Andrews. John Fawcett: MI5 liaison officer with New Zealand 1985/6 (Information from Owen Wilkes). John Hay: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List 1990). J.A. Noakes: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List 1990). R.G. Graham: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List […]
[…] have been rewritten to reflect the result. But I have left them as they were originally written. Pieces without a stated author are by me. Robin Ramsay New contributors to this issue include Dan Atkinson, who is Economics Editor of the Financial Mail on Sunday; Adrian Kozlowski, who taught English literature in Birmingham secondary […]
[…] of America, particularly since Watergate. Here too, although much less is known, there has been a purge of CIA, a dispersal of former CIA Cuban operatives into new multinational networks, and a number of what appear to be controlled selective arrests of former CIA agents who had been driven into narcotics trafficking with the […]
[…] him to smear Labour, Liberal and Tory politicians in Clockwork Orange Two. Ware can get away with this disgraceful distortion only by completely ignoring the Wallace handwritten notes – based on MI5 information – which, as he knows, were confirmed forensically as being written in or around 1974. Pooh-poohing Wallace’s allegations, Ware can’t even […]
