[…] know that behind my back he is up to something quite different’, explained one Colonial Office Under-Secretary. On the other hand, key officials such as Anthony Montague Brown, Churchill’s Private Secretary, always looked forward to the yellow dispatch box in which Young put the cream of ‘C’s output. As part of the effort to […]
[…] who provided the intellectual underpinning for Gaitskell’s politics and some of his organisational muscle, was paid for a while by the CCF. We know, too, that George Brown, Gaitskell’s deputy, was so close to the Americans as to be described by some as a CIA source. We know that Gaitskell was on good terms […]
[…] Summers, The Arrogance of Power: the Secret World of Richard Nixon (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000); Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), pp.18 and 71. The document was found on the PRO website at http://www.pro.gov.uk/docimages/KV/2_34a.gif . Haushofer’s list can be inferred from a memorandum Haushofer […]
[…] whom are. One reason why the agencies have lost influence in Parliament is because of changes in the House of Lords. For example, having ex-spook/BP chairman Lord Brown there, is not the same as having, say, a Lord Hayter in situ. The latter was ‘the last family chairman of Chubb’ whose products ‘guarded the […]
[…] Defence Intelligence Staff did know about the 30 November 1987 document and expressed misgivings about its implications. These were not taken seriously enough to lead the government to stop or at least curtail the trade. See Inquiry D4.30. See his In the Public Interest (London, Little Brown, 1995; revised edition published by Warner Books, 1996)
[…] was ‘dazzled by Blair’s drive and religious commitment’. Two months later, the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, Blair won the election contest with Gordon Brown; and Michael Levy set about raising money – the figure of £7 million is widely quoted – for Tony Blair’s personal use. The big early contributors […]
[…] first. Information is being sought on the following individuals, most journalists, many possibly connected to various state-sponsored media/newspaper enterprises of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Ernest Ray Lewis Andrew Marshall Dennis Warner Michael Derek Carr Jennifer Hale John Epstein Ian Dunlop James Partington E.C. ‘Jim’ Brown S.J.W. ‘Jack’ Coles David Hay Neave (deceased) Douglas Evans
[…] she went down, so did they. (For a while they seemed to genuinely believe that Mrs Thatcher was a libertarian; a bit like believing that Blair and Brown are socialists. ) The book’s title is slightly misleading: the sociology takes up only a small section at the end. This is basically a history – […]
SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been … Read more
[…] Front at one point, seeing the far-Right party as a possible vehicle for organicist ideas. (The British National Party today continues what is sometimes called the ‘ Brown/ Green’ alliance.)(21) We shall return to the Goldsmiths below. There are one or two other indicators of the Soil Association’s political attitudes at this time which […]
