[…] inform every account, however, is the contrast between Orwell’s supposed status as a ‘socialist icon’ and his informing on other left-wing writers to a department of the secret state. Both sides of this equation need examination. Part of the problem is the notion of Orwell as a ‘socialist icon’, some sort of left-wing ‘St […]
[…] the arms industry – angered by Diana’s involvement in the campaign to ban land mines; the security services, specifically MI6. The American, French, South African and Israeli secret services may also have provided assistance. ‘There’s an arrogant faction inside MI6, part of the Eton/Oxford/Guards clique, who see themselves literally as defenders of the realm […]
[…] of information. Tony Bunyan’s been doing this work for over twenty years, a long time to be pissing into the wind. In Defence of The Party: The Secret State, the Conservative Party and dirty tricks Colin Challen and Mike Hughes £3.95 from Medium Publishing, 1 Main Street, East Ardsley, Wakefield WF3 2AE This is […]
Nigel West London: Greenhill Books, 2006, £25, h/b The books of ‘West’ that I have read all have the same problem: he tells you that some of the material comes from past or present intelligence officers and hints that in those sections you are getting ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] And that wasn’t the reason the deal fell apart in the UK. It fell apart because of a dispute between HM Customs and the rest of the secret state; and, when the whole stupid mess ended up in court, the late Alan Clark MP was unwilling to see MI6 agent and Matrix Churchill executive […]
