One of the aims of this column is to open up new lines of enquiry for parapolitical specialists. It might seem very odd to start with the name of Reinhard Gehlen, long-since dead founder of the BND, the German Security Service. Reinhard Gehlen, to over-simplify a very complex tale, bought his way into the Western … Read more
[…] and his research is continuing. He has recently received 2,500 pages of declassified material on Project Pandora, the US investigation of the Soviet irradiation of the US embassy in Moscow, aspects of which, when digested, will no doubt appear in these columns. Meanwhile here is another example of the duplicity of the British state. […]
[…] Minister), with the aim – among others – of saving the CIA listening posts on the Soviet/Iranian border at Capkan and Behshahr. The capture of the American Embassy in November 1979 wrecked these plans however, and it was only after a year that the CIA managed to re-establish contacts with an old friend, former […]
[…] as cover for CIA.) And there are one or two interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the first Wilson government. There’s this on George Brown while Labour’s Foreign Secretary: ‘….he was also particularly friendly to America. Several times he went along […]
[…] in promoting the political project now so universally respected for its adherence to transparency, accuracy and straight dealing with journalists. Hobsbawn was the organiser of the Washington Embassy party for her pals in the British American Project after New Labour’s election victory in 1997. ‘Big Swing to BAP’ was the headline on the BAP […]
[…] of the Exmouth coroner that Moyle had been unlawfully killed. The Sunday Times report (1 March 1998) on this managed not to mention the role of British embassy staff in Santiago in spreading smear stories about Moyle’s death being the result of autoerotic asphyxiation. Was Moyle was working for British intelligence, as a part […]
We understand that Lord Rothschild was badly shaken last year by the many innuendoes linking him to the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. A typical example was Anthony Glees’ book on ‘British intelligence and Communist Subversion’: “Rothschild (was) remarkably intimate with people subsequently proven to be secret Communists, and Blunt was a major Communist … Read more
[…] Men on the 6th Floor, which includes Loy Factor’s ‘confession’, as the source of a claim about the identity of the man impersonating Oswald at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City – but doesn’t mention Loy Factor around whom the book is built. On p.812 Armstrong tells us: ‘Some researchers speculate that the man […]
[…] ever close on the Godson family who have featured regularly in Lobster over the years? Father of the clan, Joe, was Hugh Gaitskell’s ally at the US embassy and in an active retirement from the diplomatic service continued to influence British politicians through his work at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. One […]
[…] a conviction for Oliver North). It took the CIA 13 months longer than Ace Hayes to place an order for this database, and it took the Soviet embassy 8 months longer than the CIA. Who’s this Ace guy from Portland? (By 1994 Ace had become a member of the advisory board at Public Information […]
