[PDF file]: […] years. The British Foreign Service is small. Actual diplomats, as opposed to staff, are only about 2,000 people, I worked there for over 20 years. I k new most of them by name. All the people involved in smearing me, trying to taint me on false charges, were people I thought were my friends. […]
[PDF file]: […] with declarations such as this: ‘Those of us who believe with every fibre of our being in the free market should not condemn anyone for discovering a new commercial opportunity to fill in the gap between the summer holidays and Christmas: but that does seem to be what Hallowe’en is all about these days.’ […]
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[PDF file]: […] of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that problem in 1966 by creating an insulation layer, the Defence Sales 1 Over a hundred source notes to several of the chapters, for example. 2 It’s suggested but not demonstrated in Thatcher’s Wiki entry. In the preface the author thanks the Rowntree Trust […]
[PDF file]: […] for thinking that Philip Agee had never lived and that the Church and Pike Committees had never met. Even Mr Panetta, who is commonly depicted as a new broom at Langley, has been part of the so-called intelligence community for more than thirty years. ‘Witches’ and ‘miracles’ There is a very strong cognitive – […]
[PDF file]: […] brother soon disappeared and all of the other people involved in the smuggling were arrested and convicted. Think of that what you will. John Gorst (Conservative MP for Hendon North), who had previously met Captain Hayward in the early 80s, made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the situation.1 In doing so, […]
[PDF file]: […] be for not using the existing constituency-based electoral organisation? I can think of only one, the one the author suggests: to rig the vote, if necessary. He notes that Cord Meyer was London CIA station chief at this point. Did Meyer bring ballot-rigging expertise from the CIA? This is not that implausible; but there […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The economic crisis Robin Ramsay The tune changes The headline in The Guardian 29 July 2009 was ‘Mandelson backs British ingenuity to engineer a new industrial age’. Lord Mandelson was quoted as saying: ‘We, like other governments, had taken for granted that our wealth would continue to be generated from the […]
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[PDF file]: […] of the first problems the Americans encountered was what to do about the proliferation of militia forces in the country. Were these to be incorporated into the new army or dispensed with, hopefully disbanded? There were, as he points out, ‘thousands of generals in Afghanistan who had never been to the military academy and […]
