[…] ‘supported Israel’. 5 In most – e.g. John Rentoul, Tony Blair, (London: Little Brown, 1995), p. 390 – the money came from Barry Cox, Peter Mandelson’s erstwhile boss at London Weekend Television (LWT). On the LWT network see Andy Beckett, ‘A world apart’, in The Guardian (Weekend), 4 September 1999. 6 John Lloyd, New […]
[…] march straight out to the newspapers to blow the whistle, or even to go to their union or professional association and begin proceedings against their loopy, tyrannical boss. The Thatcher/Blair duo’s greatest achievement was getting home-ownership in Britain up to around 70%. There’s nothing like having to worry about mortgage payments to reduce the […]
[…] lots of things missing. This is the list I compiled on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith’s Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; […]
[…] or imagined calendar or appointments book – not photographs. The way the arrangement worked, visitors to the DNC would be directed to the office of Maxie Wells’ boss, Spencer Oliver. They were told that the telephone would ring, and that, when they answered it, they’d be speaking with….. (here, a photograph would be taken […]
[PDF file]: […] their brother George. FBI reports described him as a ‘big-time gambler’ and bookmaker from New York. He allegedly fronted for Michael ‘Trigger Mike’ Coppola, the powerful under boss one of New York City’s five Mafia clans, the Genovese family. In the late 1950s, George looked after Coppola’s interests in the Plaza hotel and casino […]
[PDF file]: […] in the name of fighting Communism. Key players included CIA directors Allen Dulles and Richard Helms; Mafia killers Sam Giancana, Santos Trafficante and John Roselli;* Teamsters Union boss and Mafia ally Jimmy Hoffa; billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes; reporters Drew Pearson, Jack Anderson and Hank Greenspun; and super-lawyers Edward Bennett Williams and Edward P. Morgan. […]
[PDF file]: […] as little more than a right-wing loony, McWhirter was rather more than that. The single most interesting fragment we have on McWhirter is the claim by ex- BOSS (Bureau of State Security – South Africa’s secret intelligence service) agent Gordon Winter that he was told, via a British Special Branch source, that McWhirter and […]
[PDF file]: […] $100,000 . . . Bebe Rebozo . . . maintained a private fund for Nixon to use as he wished.’ 38 Haldeman’s assistant Lawrence Higby testified his boss had spoken of a $400,000 secret fund controlled by Rebozo. On April 17, 1973, Nixon urged Memorandum from FBI Director Hoover to Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust […]
[PDF file]: […] about his praetorian guards and spear carriers, the former Director of Public Prosecutions could then move on the main event – Duncan’s description of his former FCO boss, the self-styled World King himself. In 2016 Duncan attends Chatham House for the presentation of a Royal Institute of International Affairs prize to US Secretary of […]
[…] other words. Archegos has gone bust, owing various banks $10 billion. So far, so rather routine. The author of a piece in the Telegraph described what Archegos’ boss Bill Hwang had been doing – his ‘trading strategy’. ‘Hwang was mostly trading through total return swaps. As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They […]
