[…] subversion and Blair was rising to the higher ranks of the Labour Party.’ The spook-wise We’ve got another MP who takes a serious interest in the British secret state. In the past we have had MPs who had been secret servants (mostly Conservative) and a few Labour MPs who took a temporary interest. Almost […]
[…] as ‘chairman of the defence committee of the Western European Union.’. This is dubious for two reasons. In the first place, I doubt very much that anything secret (and what is a low-level secret?) was given to a body as insignificant as the defence committee of the Western European Union, which in Edwards’ day, […]
[…] not in some ‘lesser publication’ later in the day.(1) And it wasn’t MI6. This assumes that, as former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove would have us believe, Secret Intelligence Service service personnel follow the rules. A less trusting Michael Mansfield QC, for Mr Al Fayed, suggested ‘there are things countenanced within the service that […]
[…] title was inconceivable 20, even 10 years ago. But there is now a group of British academics, historians mostly, who are working on the history of our secret state; and not just as cheerleaders, like Christopher Andrew. The picture we now have of British domestic politics and the role of the various secret or […]
Global Intelligence: the World’s Secret Services Today Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, London and New York, Zed Books, 2003 h/back £32.95/ $55.00 p/back £9.99/ $17.50 ‘We lacked specific information on many key aspects of Iraq’s WMD program’ Vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Stuart Cohen, December 2003 With the spectacular failure […]
[…] voices in her head as fixed, ‘belonging to some deeper mental structure, like an unacknowledged government department’ and thinks she may have filtered her experience through the secret realm of her father’s work. Other pressures on spook children and young people could come from their peer group at school or university whether or not […]
[…] Mail, 22 December 2003; Sue Reid, ‘So is this the proof she was pregnant?’, Daily Mail, 27 December 2003 Alex Hitchen and Rachel Bletchly, ‘Diana: we find secret medical report’, The People, 11 January 2004. Mark Reynolds, ‘Diana: the pregnancy conspiracy’, The Express, 26 September 2005. Robert Thompson, who was present at the mortuary […]
[…] were opposed.(9) The government enlisted the assistance of the Information Research Department (IRD). This covert unit, established by the Labour Government in 1948, was financed from the Secret Intelligence Services budget, with close links to MI6. The government’s campaign had three stages. The first involved the dissemination of information to the press and public; […]
[…] of the conspiracy that destroyed Oyston’s business and political career now lie in a huge archive gathered during the twenty years in which he was tormented by secret enemies, the four years in which he fought multiple rape charges and the three years he spent in prison, refusing to admit his guilt. Behind the […]
[…] terribly cheering to learn from a posting by the National Security Archive (1) that General Pinochet ‘had used multiple aliases and false identification to maintain over 125 secret bank accounts at the Riggs National Bank and eight other financial institutions in the United States.’ Saviour of the nation? Defender of Christianity? Just another brutal, […]
