[PDF file]: […] particularly interesting read because I am currently embroiled in a lengthy appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK. As a part of the research for my own previous Lobster article ‘The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the “Gladio” networks’,1 I had succeeded in obtaining some documents from the Foreign and […]
[PDF file]: […] beneath it. This book shows as well as anything I have read that these notions were simply the views of naive people who had never been near real criminal investigations, nor tried to deal with people from the covert world who were blowing smoke (let alone who might kill you if you found something […]
[PDF file]: Burying the Lead: The Media and the JFK Assassination Mal Hyman Walterville, Oregon: Trine Day, 2019 561 pp. Sources and Notes, Bibliography, Index; $24.95 Anthony Frewin Hyman ruthlessly and chronologically documents the MSM’s collusion (I can think of no better word) with the Warren Report and Commission in the USA and elsewhere; and seeing […]
[PDF file]: […] few pages in the text. In effect they were better at being spies than the amateurs they were facing (and I would include the Soviet state agencies for much of the period in that description) – and, of course, they had the powers of the state, notably the ability to intercept letters. It is […]
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[PDF file]: […] civil war in which they could play no part; while the much more powerful Americans blundered about. It was this which got the US ambassador killed. Hancock notes that he ‘died as the result of mistakes made on the ground and Washington’s poor assessment of the degree of risk to which they were exposed’. […]
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[PDF file]: Griftopia Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Matt Taibbi New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010, $26.00 (US); (around £10 plus p and p from Amazon.co.uk), h/b John Lanchester’s Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay (published as I.O.U. in America) may be the best account […]
[PDF file]: […] down. The story starts in 1978 with the White House and a behind the scenes deal with Iran. The US, which had supported the Shah of Iran for years, was beginning to find his increasingly oppressive regime embarrassing, both at home and abroad. President Carter ordered the CIA to begin secretly supporting the Iranian […]
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