[…] Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that Iraq had been developing chemical and biological warfare capacities. But to use this new ‘source’s’ intelligence in this way, the expert in the field, Dr Brian Jones, of the Defence Intelligence Staff, was simply not told about the source or […]
[…] was able to organise a lobby of 30 M.Ps. who wanted a positive response from Churchill to Hitler’s peace offer of July 1940. His papers at the New Bodleian Library, Oxford do not however reveal all of the identities involved. It should also be remembered that 1,500 people were detained under Defence Regulation 18b […]
[…] major hand in launching it via the 1984 Jonathan Institute conference. (See the book review, Lobster 13 p 20). The Israeli state’s interest lies in getting this new definition of ‘terrorism’ into common currency so they can assign the PLO to it, thus justifying their continuing repression.) Jilian Becker/Institute for the Study of Terrorism […]
[…] is hard to disagree with Jenkins’ comment: ‘This is bureaucracy gone mad. It embodies the over-regulated, service-quantified, risk-averse, publicity-obsessed style of government that has come to typify new Labour in government.’ Mad or bad? Jenkins’ piece raises the central question about this government: are they corrupt cynics or are they really the dummies they […]
Mandy, The Independent and Europe As pictures of H’Angus the Monkey, the new elected mayor of Hartlepool, filled the news pages, it emerged more quietly that the other public face of that poor North-East town, Peter Mandelson, had joined the international advisory board of News and Media, the owners of The Independent and The […]
[…] foul play.(18) First pick your voters In Florida’s Seminole county alone, 15,000 absentee votes were registered, mainly for service personnel – traditionally, Republican supporters – posted abroad. New York lawyer Harry Jacobs announced that he would sue Seminole county’s election supervisor, Sandra Goard, after overhearing a county election official say that Goard had allowed […]
[…] Kennedys set Mongoose going underneath everything. It looks like a contradiction. Is it? PDS: This is particularly complicated because the Church Committee chronology suggests that there were new operations authorised against Castro in June ’63, which, of course, seems to work against my thesis that they were learning to live with Castro. Let me […]
[…] Clinton guarantees a 50-billion dollar loan to Mexico to bail out the collapsing stock market. The Mexican market gambles of American companies like Goldman Sachs, a huge New York investment banking firm and one of Clinton’s principal financial donors, are thereby secured. January Sergio Moreno Perez is replaced by LUIS ANTONIO IBANEZ CORNEJO as […]
[…] were forced out of the Agency in late 1974 by the then DCIA, William Colby. The immediate cause of their removal was Seymour Hersh’s story in the New York Times alleging that CI had been involved in illegal mail opening operations. Colby confirmed the truth of the story and asked for Angleton’s resignation. Epstein […]
[…] accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been under threat for years from surviving members of the cartel; and they have all been under threat from new, sophisticated arrivals. Anything that damages the brand – supposedly offering alternative worlds and values – kills it. Those who lobbed the missile at its HQ in […]
