[…] that is certainly how many in the US intelligence establishment viewed the strategy of providing aid and comfort to anti-communist forces even if they did not possess liberal democratic credentials. Yet there may have been more to it for Angleton. From adolescence he had demonstrated an interest in ‘third way’ regimes and philosophies which […]
[…] extremely misleading. Though the public is told that Tory and Labour are in opposition, that is not really the case. They are led to believe that the Liberal Democrats are an insurgent third party, but that is not the case. It has come to seem to me that their strongest loyalties are to each […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Seven years after the event, to its credit, the New York Times finally revealed a little of the story about the wind-up of the CIA’s Operation 40 because of its narcotics activities.(25) It did so an part of a series of stories exposing operations for which the CIA’s counter-intelligence … Read more
[…] – once more Threadneedle Street was giving priority to international ‘obligations’ over commitments to build a fairer society at home. I reckon the Bank reverted to its liberal outlook of pre-war days in the late 40s – because by this time, given the 1949 sterling crisis and devaluation, currency liberalisation was seen as the […]
Israel, the Jews, and the West: The Fall and Rise of Antisemitism William D Rubinstein London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2008, £10.00 The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from its Ashes Avraham Burg New York: Palgrave Macmillan, £15.99 A Time To Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity Edited by … Read more
[…] fact, the ICFTUE. Of Sacha Volman, Philip Agee says that he ‘set up the Institute of Political Education in Costa Rica (cryptonym Zraeger) where he sent young liberal hopefuls for training.'(34) Volman was, according to Agee, the CIA contract operations officer in San José.(35) In January 1952, delegates to a conference in London of […]
[…] Secret State. While Stafford’s general thesis is unconvincing, the book does throw some interesting light in murky corners. Even when he was still a minister in the Liberal Government before the outbreak of the First World War, it was Churchill, we are assured, who, as Home Secretary, first authorised the clandestine interception of mail […]
On 8 March 1985 an attempt was made to assassinate one of the founders of Hizbullah, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, by car bomb in Beirut. The attack failed in its objective, but there was some ‘collateral damage’. While Fadlallah was untouched, some eighty bystanders, men, women and children, were killed and over two hundred injured. … Read more
[…] lest we miss the point, Woodward tells us that ‘Felt thought the Nixon team were Nazis.’ How interesting! That’s what I thought! And so did every other liberal I knew at the time. Surprisingly, this was also the point-of-view of James McCord, the right-wing evangelist and former CIA officer who led the break-in team […]
BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour ‘is the natural party of business’,(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, ‘rebranding’) in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson’s boast that he had made Labour … Read more
