The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance of the western military to acknowledge this […]

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[…] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance of the western military to acknowledge this […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] – had there been any we would have heard about it – and Ireland-asCuba was simply an invention by those creative amplifiers of the ‘red menace’ at IRD. (Bloom does not mention IRD.) Bloom then tells us that Neave met Wallace three times and ‘Wallace was dismissed with £70 for his information.’ (p. 53) […]

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[…] question what Washington knows about the origins of Havana Syndrome, and what an appropriate Western response might entail. (emphasis added) The use of ‘may’ in the th ird line of that paragraph is striking. What they offer is much closer to ‘almost certainly is’ than it is to ‘may’. The incidents began in 2014, […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] the brother of former OSS man and later Washington Post editor the late Phil Graham, who helped the CIA by running propaganda as part of Operation Mockingb ird and by covering up the Agency’s failure at the Bay of Pigs, whose personal acquaintances included CIA Director Allen Dulles. (Phil Graham had also worked for […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

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[PDF file]: […] This is the best account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department ( IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

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[PDF file]: […] counter-organise and the author gives us a pretty detailed account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] I remember nothing about it at all. It is now available on Kindle at . The first allegations about LBJ were made in the 1966 play Macb ird!. On which see . 67 See for example and . 68 69 Specifically this piece of vintage 1963 Soviet boilerplate: ‘The assassination of JFK on November […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of GDP and employs a million people; the City represents perhaps a th ird of that and, in turn, that part threatened – if it was threatened at all – some fraction of that. This is a tiny economic interest. […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] lack of interest in the ‘Soviet threat’ triggered the formation of the anti-subversion lobby which gathered round Brian Crozier in the early 1970s – CIA, MI6 and IRD personnel who were not persuaded of the decline of the ‘Soviet threat’. (This was part of the wider debate about the reality of détente between NATO […]

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