It is a difficult time for Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Not only have the old certainties collapsed with the Berlin Wall, Britain’s economy is in increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 and … Read more
[…] ‘rather nondescript club’ and is warned in a phone call that he could be bankrupted by a full tax inspection. He is then tipped by a ‘ spook’ from MI6 that Kelly’s death was a ‘wet disposal’. After meeting Baker, this contact has his laptop stolen. Another such key source – ‘I cannot publicly […]
[…] nicely produced, and rather good – or would be if you are interested in Soviet disinformation chiefly within the Third World. (And its got to be a spook operation.) Available from Ickham Publications Ltd., Westonhanger, Ickham, Canterbury CT3 1QN. Executive Intelligence Review We recently received a copy of EIR, the main journal of the […]
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK … Read more
[…] shop staff) ‘That depends what it is. If it’s a long one, I’ll put my glasses on.’ Turner: ‘Can you put ‘To David Turner — from a spook to a subversive?²’ ‘And please can I know what’s on my file?’ Rimington (smiling like an indulgent headmistress) ‘I’m sure you haven’t got one!’ Turner: ‘I […]
Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from <www.secrecyandprivilege.com> This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative … Read more
[…] (on which see Lobster 11). The parapolitical overlay is suggested by the involvement of Richard Allen in the IDU. (Financial Times 25 July 1985). Allen is a spook. The PDU, funded by the USIS via the so-called ‘Project Democracy’ (on which see National Reporter Summer 1986) has been funding the right in New Zealand […]
Stephen Dorril Heinemann, London, 1993 It turns out that the ‘silent conspiracy’ of the title is a conspiracy which ‘has surrounded Britain’s secret state’ — a blindingly obvious tautology. Dorril has done as much as any other to lift the veil of secrecy from the British secret state, so it is somewhat disappointing to read … Read more
Bilderberged again Giles Radici’s Diaries 1980-2001 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004) isn’t terribly interesting but it does contain some snippets about Radici’s activities at the annual Anglo-German Konigswinter conference and one or two on his time at St Antony’s College (as a ‘parliamentary fellow’). There is also a section (pp. 336-7) on his attendance at … Read more
