[…] the US intelligence services of the period and/or were allowed into the United States following the end of WW2. This is the secret. This edition has a new introduction in which Loftus describes the long processes of official review and censorship of his text, as well as presenting something of a political manifesto, which […]
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[PDF file]: […] all of the historical budgetary details for MI6 are redacted, when they aren’t for any of the other agencies. At paragraph 83 we get down to the real political nitty gritty, when it is pointed out that, incongruously: ‘Policy responsibility for Hostile State Activity sits in the National Security Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. […]
[PDF file]: […] this is inevitably an interesting history and Hippler does have much of interest to say on particular topics. Nevertheless, the book remains unsatisfactory, disappointing, with too much philosophy and not enough military history. John Newsinger John Newsinger has a new book, ‘Hope Lies in the Proles’: Orwell and the Left, coming out early next year.
[PDF file]: […] respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that those criticising Warren’s conclusion should be described as ‘conspiracy theorists’. The author notes that this turned out to be ‘one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time’; the ‘conspiracytheory label has become a powerful smear that, in […]
[PDF file]: […] go codes (Strategic Air Command ’s one-size-fits-all nuclear launch code was 00000000), but there were no recall orders. As Ellsburg relates, base commanders and bomber pilots had real autonomy to use their nukes; yet there was no system in place to stop them, in the event (for example) of an error of judgment, or […]
[…] book might contain some important in formation about a series of high profile killings linked to an apartheid-era South Africa paramilitary outfit called the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly, with the LaRouche […]
[PDF file]: […] US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John McFall’s account of casualties of the US empire, to my notes on the economic crisis, America’s (failing) empire and this country’s relationship to it is clearly the major theme. And how could it be anything else? Because […]
[…] received some glowing reviews from the major media. I read only the second half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very […]
