[…] policy for much of the first half of this century. The inner core of this group (which I will refer to as the Round Table), was a secret society founded by Cecil Rhodes. Using Rhodes’ money, this group set up the Round Table groups in then British Dominions; the Council on Foreign Relations in […]
[…] foreign policy for much of the first half of this century. The inner core of the group (which I will refer to as the Round Table), a secret society set up by Cecil Rhodes, using Rhodes’ money, set up the Round Table groups in the then British Dominions, the Council on Foreign Relations in […]
[…] we know of. Since none of the states involved have held really serious inquiries serious meaning subpoena powers and the threat of imprisonment into the secret organisation revealed to have been in their midst for 40 years, we will never know what was actually going on. What we do know is bad […]
[…] is the long-running controversy about the so-called MAJESTIC papers, documents apparently leaked to the UFO researcher William Moore in the 1980s, purporting to come from a super- secret US government committee of the 1950s which was handling the UFO issue at the time under the codename MAJESTIC. Cannon noticed a report in the Electronic […]
[…] 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 […]
Many thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions to Shayler case and human rights David Shayler went on trial at the Old Bailey in October/ November 2002 for disclosing information and documents relating to security and intelligence, under s1(1) and 4(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1989. During the trial he was … Read more
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] Bedford Borough Council has been hung for 14 years, with the local economy gasping while reserves of over £14m sit in the bank and councillors meet in secret to plan their next jaunt to Europe. Some 4,500 voters applied for postal votes in the run-up to the election, but only 2,000 postal ballots actually […]
[…] 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 […]
