[…] so few books have been written about it. Bert Wickstead’s (ex Scotland Yard) slight but useful Gangbuster (Futura 1985) is welcome. It contains some material on gangland boss Bernie Silver. Which is by way of recommending The Pornbrokers (Virgin 1982) by Martin Tomkinson which has recently been remaindered. Silver, it is said, organised the […]
[…] insisted that he could continue the investigation, relying on the local British embassy for security if need be. The following evening he received a call from his boss, Mickey Bispham. He was ordered to return to London immediately. Amin was thereafter almost taken back to square one. The only hard evidence he had to […]
[…] for underground dealings with Germans willing to discuss peace such as Admiral Canaris, the Abwehr chief, Hermann Goering (whose chauffeur was a Swedish agent), the SS intelligence boss Walter Schellenberg or, at the end of the war, Heinrich Himmler. (De Courcy told me that he had met Himmler and thought him a man with […]
[…] had to date. Something is going on here but I’ve no idea what. Interesting (just) for pp 68-74 which discuss the South Africa Foundation and the UK-SA Trade Association. Barber, incidentally, is the author of the article on BOSS in Britain (African Affairs July 1983) mentioned in Lobster 4.) Read the article, ignore this. RR
[…] she would become the first female PM of Britain.’ This raises two points. The minor one is that this supports Gordon Winter. For in his memoir Inside BOSS, Winter describes (p. 186) a 1968 meeting with Cecil Eprille a employee of the CIA front, Forum World Features, whom he quotes as saying, ‘There’s a […]
[…] on its activities by the police. But he could not persuade the government that his successor should be the internal candidate, Guy Liddell.’ This account of MI5 boss Petrie’s bureaucratic struggle is new, as far as I am aware. Although there is no source for that paragraph it follows this sentence: ‘White’s dissatisfaction was […]
[…] Democratic president, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, between 1952 and 1976, John F Kennedy, had owed his win to the support of Sam Giancana, the mob boss in Chicago in 1960. As mentioned above, Binyon was one of Johnson’s sponsors. Although he could hardly read or write, he had worked his way up […]
Books Secret Contenders Melvin Beck (Sheridan Square Publications, US 1984) The CIA Christmas party of 1958 found 48 year old all-American boy, Melvin Beck, getting the offer of overseas work with Clandestine Services. He “struck like a hungry bass” and landed in Havana in 1959, just as the first Russian freighter was arriving. Fairly early … Read more
[…] votes from members, trade unions and MPs. The process of welcoming back Ken was presided over by a panel chaired by Paul Kenny – then the GMB boss in the London area (and now General Secretary of the GMB nationally) and a former employee of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Key supporters […]
[…] time of writing he had just launched a new legal bid to try to force US authorities to release documents relating to the crash. (Tom Kelly, ‘Harrods boss launches new Diana crash court move’, Associated Press 18 April 2002) 2 SPI Books has a wide ranging backlist, covering topics such as baseball, child rearing, […]
