[…] 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 […]
[…] deployed against terrorists at home’. To explain covert operations which occurred before 1976 the authors produce an undercover unit ’14th Intelligence’, whose existence, they claim, ‘has remained secret until revealed to the authors during their research’. 14t Int. was allegedly formed in 1972 when the Army established its own ‘secret intelligence-gathering unit….. known as […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Munich, almost all of the Labour Party. Origins of The Focus The Focus was partly a dining club and partly a campaign co-ordinating committee. If not strictly secret, it was private and avoided publicity. For example, after attending his second Focus lunch on 6 April 1938, the National Labour politician Harold Nicolson wrote in […]
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 […]
[…] Seagrave published a number of documents I provided to him about four years ago under an agreement of confidentiality. Some of these I later published with The Secret Gold Treaty (8) and so not only did he breach a confidentiality agreement but also copyright. I privately insisted he cease publishing but he didn’t have […]
[…] draft Bill (www.cfoi.org.uk/draftbill240599pr.html): ‘Deeply disappointing’ and ‘in key areas the Bill is weaker than the Conservatives’ Openness Code’. Criticisms include: Safety info can be classified as top secret; it replaces the Code’s public interest test by a voluntary test; it replaces the WP’s ‘substantial harm’ test with a lower ‘prejudice’ test; it contains ‘catch-all’ […]
[…] MP, has been putting dozens and dozens of questions to our state about the cases and allegations of Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, those bits of the secret state you are allowed to ask questions about, Northern Ireland, psy ops and so on. Putting down such questions is a fairly dispiriting business. Some of […]
[…] Lobster 39 went to the printer and didn’t pursue it. I should have. The following references are from Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991) Geoffrey Goodman was repeatedly burgled in 1976, one of many among Wilson’s inner circle who were being burgled in this period. […]
[…] with an offer of peace between a Germany without Hitler and a Britain without Churchill. But the British government, tipped off by Admiral Canaris, chief of German secret intelligence, was waiting. Churchill had the double locked up for the duration of the war. At the Nuremberg trials the man who called himself Hess suffered […]
