[…] PKI. (78) Only from recently released documents do we learn that new military aid was en route as late as July 1965, in the form of a secret contract to deliver 200 Aero-Commanders to the Indonesian Army: these were light aircraft suitable for use in ‘civic action’ or counter-insurgency operations, presumably by the Army […]
[…] of an American pilot through the static on the airport radio saying, ‘I’ve gotta come in for more ammunition. I can’t fly around here without more ammunition.’ Secret war in Ethiopia What I had witnessed was Nixon’s secret war in Ethiopia to defend Hails Sellassie from the Tigre Liberation Front and the Eritrean Liberation […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The miners and the secret state * Robin Ramsay In his 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5’s biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote […]
[PDF file]: Ritual America Secret Brotherhoods and their influence on American society A Visual Guide Adam Parfrey and Craig Heimbichner Feral House, 2012, $29.95 This is a big book. With 335 pages just a fraction under A4 sized, this weighs over 4 lbs. It is indeed a ‘a visual guide’ with hundreds of fascinating illustrations, photographs […]
[PDF file]: Beyond Bugliosi: the Manson murders revisited CHAOS Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O’Neill (with Dan Piepenbring) London: Heinemann, 2019, £20 (h/b) David Black Hollywood Horrors In March 1999, as the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders approached, Tom O’Neill was assigned by the movie magazine, Premiere, to […]
[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the […]
[PDF file]: The higher strangeness Secret Life of Uri Geller:CIA masterspy? Jonathan Margolis London: Watkins, 2013, £8.99, p/b This is the second book about Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended […]
[PDF file]: The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Craig Whitlock New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021, £20, h/b John Newsinger The reporting across the British media on both the collapse of the Afghan regime and the defeat of the U.S. and its allies has been a total disgrace. Where was the discussion of […]
[PDF file]: SECRET HISTORY Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Around £17.00 p/b Robin Ramsay In the last 30 years or so academic writing on intelligence services in this country has gone from being a non-subject to an enormous field, far too big for any one person […]
[PDF file]: Using the Freedom of Information Act to keep things secret Colin Challen With the start date for fracking near the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton almost upon us, there has been a marked increase in police activity in the area, with convoys of police vans driving around the narrow lanes surrounding the site. […]
