[…] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]
[PDF file]: […] international figure not only in that field but also in weapons inspection.2 At the time of his death he was working for the Ministry of Defence ( MoD) and was about to set off on his 38th visit to Iraq, following many similar missions to Russia. Dr Kelly had become the subject of heated […]
[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
[PDF file]: […] prior to 1981 and part of Team B.1 7 The 1999 conference gathered together former Ambassadors to the US, a former Chief of Defence Intelligence at the MoD, a Labour Defence Spokesman, advisors to British Aerospace and Edward Streator, the chairman of the IEDSS’ New Atlantic Initiative, who also wrote for the Council for […]
[PDF file]: […] on a mysterious visit to Brussels of a four-member SAS team lead by Kock….. On 2 March 1990, a fax message, with the heading “Visit of UK MoD Special Forces Staff to PRB”, announced the arrival in Brussels of the above four-member team for a supposed 19-21 March visit to PRB facilities.’ not coterminous.64 […]
[PDF file]: […] Chatham House et al – of the wilfully and/or career-mindedly naive pro-American writing on the subject at present. 40 She listed as among those briefed by the MOD. See near the bottom of the list at . 41 42 14 Cold War 3 The new Cold War is now established. And just as in […]
[PDF file]: […] strict. But in Britain the situation was different. Every type of military equipment could be exported provided it had a governmentapproved ‘end user certificate’ supplied by the MoD. The British were ordered to get round the UN and Parliamentary ban by supplying false ‘end user certificates’. These were drawn up by Mr James Taylor, […]
[PDF file]: […] As often happens, Craig Murray whacked the nail on the head. ‘A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been […]
[PDF file]: […] counter-subversion preventative measures. I heard Hart speak on a number of occasions, first at the National Defence College, Latimer House, Buckinghamshire, in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate “propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ […]
