[…] heart, you’re as thick as Des Wilson appears to be in taking them on board. Even Sir Robert Armstrong, one of the real pillars of this country’s secret state, is apparently in favour of more ‘open government’. Times 2 July. Another memoire, by ex MI5 Joan Miller, suppressed by the government. Sunday Times 29 […]
[…] Middle Eastern oil and the need for the installation and maintenance of compliant domestic regimes? There is a strange non-sequitur in the first chapter where a ‘ secret’ official British policy document from 1958 relating to the Middle East is immediately followed by ‘Thus, shortly after the First World War, turning their eyes towards […]
[…] 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 […]
Olivier Schmidt Atlanta (USA): Clarity Press, 2005, $14.95, p/b www.bookmasters.com/clarity/currenttitles.htm Here’s a new name to me, the publisher Clarity; and a familiar one, Olivier Schmidt. In the 1980s Schmidt was producing a very good newsletter in Paris, Intelligence and Parapolitics. This got expensive, professionalised and eventually went on-line for subscribers as Intelligence.(1) This is […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and keep quiet about it. But we should go a little way beyond that. Firstly, very large scale secrets have been kept. Most obvious is the Ultra secret, the British breaking of the German Enigma machine, an enormous secret, which was kept by hundreds and perhaps thousands of people between 1941 and J.C. Masterman’s […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] played a part in convincing Agca to accept the role of accuser of Bulgaria. He further claimed it was General Pietro Musumeci, former vice-director of Italy’s Military Secret Service (SISMI), who had proposed the plan to the Camorra. (Times 18 June 1983) This allegation has appeared before, in 1983, when it wasn’t taken up […]
