Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary […]

Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby

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[PDF file]: Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby 1 Matthew Zarb-Cousin In his 1956 book The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills illustrated the way in which the elite work together, are interconnected – both socially and in business – and therefore take each other into account when they make decisions….. Rupert Murdoch and the financial sector […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] “MI5”. Pincher says it was a group of MI5 and ex MI5 personnel. David Leigh (Observer 15 September 1985) has hinted that among those involved was Peter Wright, one of the leading figures in the campaign against former MI5 head Roger Hollis. Wright is obviously one of Pincher’s major sources for his last two […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] Details of the tax agency’s remarkable leniency emerged in 1964 hearings held by a subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Small Business, chaired by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, to study the impact on the U.S. economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts. The subcommittee’s study director, H. A. Olsher, struggled to deal with […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] five years and they did blog intermittently during that time52 but there has been no formal announcement saying, ‘Our conclusions are . . . .’. 49 Oliver Wright, ‘Johnson snubs captains of industry’, The Times 4 February 2020. 50 See . or I think that what they are quoting is something I wrote in […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Commons. It only remained that the document should – in some way – be ‘officially’ approved or accepted by Parliament. O’Donnell sent it to Dr Tony Wright MP, the chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Committee, who declined to consider it.10 It was then sent to Sir Alan Beith MP, chair […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] credibility chart as far as I am concerned. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

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[…] credibility chart as far as I am concerned. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

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