[…] the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of Allende were released, including CIA documents recording US covert operations between 1968 and […]
[…] Neither book takes on board the fact that the emigres used were largely ex-nazi collaborators, or how MI6 came to be involved with such people. The big secret that Philby and the other defectors took with them was the involvement of MI6, through Ellis and Menzies, with these proto-fascists before, during and after the […]
[…] prime minister, and particularly his more socialist colleagues, influenced by their wartime encounters with MI5 officers, suspected the service’s activities were uncontrolled. MI5, they complained, was a secret conservative group with a historic mission to destabilise the Left.(1) Their fear of surveillance by the secret police required that MI5’s new director should not be […]
[…] Chamberlain. (1) ‘IPG had sought at every level of government to convince the governments of France, Italy, Austria and Spain that, despite official pronouncements, Britain’s actual if secret foreign policy was to keep out of all European conflicts in order to give a free hand to Hitler and Mussolini against the Soviet Union.’ (2) […]
[…] 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]: The Bilderberg Conspiracy: Inside the world’s most powerful secret society H. Paul Jeffers New York: Citadel Press, 2009, $14.95 (US), p/b Colin Challen I feel cheated. Once again, a publisher’s desire for an eyecatching title has led to an anticlimax. Jeffers goes out of his way to provide a balanced judgement on the Bilderberg […]
[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 […]
