[…] Daimler-Benz AG D Wolff von Amerongen, Otto Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH DK Andersen, Bodil Nyboe Governor, Central Bank of Denmark DK Ellemann-Jensen, Uffe Chairman, Liberal Party DK Seidenfaden, Toger Editor in Chief, Politiken A/S E Carvajal Urquijo, Jaime Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento E Rodriguez Inciarte, Matias Vice Chairman, Banco de […]
As a number of people have pointed out, in the first 5 Lobsters – something like 100,000 words – there has been hardly a mention of the Soviet and Soviet satellite intelligence activities. There are reasons. No-one has offered us anything on this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What … Read more
Dangerous Liaison Between EU Institutions and Industry This is the first publication of Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Amsterdam-based foundation which will ‘monitor and report on the activities of European corporations and their lobby groups’. Very nicely produced and illustrated, this is 72 A-4 pages and costs £5.00 in the U.K. and US $10.00 in … Read more
[…] — from the head of the then Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger. This is referred to in Brian Freemantle’s The Fix, (Corgi, London, 1985) p. 88. Liberal baiting In May the Observer newspaper sponsored a debate on censorship at the National Film Theatre. (Part of a PR exercise which included two crappy little […]
[…] policies failed to chime with younger party members as they had with Thomson’s older post-war and early Cold War generation. Lord Thomson finished his life as a Liberal Democrat and, apart from several business interests, had a spell chairing the Independent Broadcasting Authority. Lord Holme of Cheltenham, who chaired the successor Broadcasting Standards Commission […]
[…] with the Soviet Union and protectionist measures against US trade: it would damage the long-term US projects to contain the USSR and make the world safe for liberal capitalism. The Americans offered West Germany the latest and best high-tech weaponry. This did not include nuclear arms but it did extend to nuclear-capable missile systems […]
[…] probably still has) connections with British intelligence. Intermittently funny in an unintentional way, Good Times Bad Times is a revealing portrait of the intellectual bankruptcy of the liberal end of the British ruling class. RR Contact A.F.N.Clarke (Pan, London 1984) Direct, earthy account by ex-Parachute Regiment Captain of his experiences in Northern Ireland from […]
[…] be a common lexicon and belief system with other flimsy theories that have crossed the Atlantic and taken root in the UK during the same period. Neo- liberal economics, ‘the End of History’ trumpeted by Francis Fukuyama and the corporate management strategies of Tom Peters promoted a set of values (successfully in the UK […]
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School … Read more
I began writing this at the beginning of August. It was then some 8 months or so after Colin Wallace’s release from prison. Some kind of summing up seemed appropriate. A great many journalists have now looked at his allegations – a handful in some detail – and, so far, they have all stood up. […]
