[…] 2 CMLR 800 Royer, para 3 of the Ruling It has emerged recently from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that a standard technique used by BOSS in the eighties and early nineties was the chemical inducement of a ‘stroke’ or ‘heart attack’. Press reports have stated that these chemicals were probably developed […]
[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]: […] as an analyst for Goldman Sachs, as did the new Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp – for 23 years no less – where he was Sunak’s boss. Sharp was also an adviser to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London and, before his new post, was an adviser to Chancellor Sunak. He […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] events of 1974-76, the so-called ‘Wilson plots’? * The so-called private armies episode of 1974 and 1975 gets only a paragraph on George Young’s Unison. * The BOSS operations against Peter Hain and Jeremy Thorpe are dismissed, as is Gordon Winter. Andrew describes him, on somebody else’s say-so, as unreliable, and quotes an MI5 […]
[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]: […] events of 1974-76, the so-called ‘Wilson plots’? * The so-called private armies episode of 1974 and 1975 gets only a paragraph on George Young’s Unison. * The BOSS operations against Peter Hain and Jeremy Thorpe are dismissed, as is Gordon Winter. Andrew describes him, on somebody else’s say-so, as unreliable, and quotes an MI5 […]
[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 […]
