[…] On the back of the attack on the MI6 building, the BBC’s John Simpson published a puff piece about being wined and dined by MI6 in their new building; another puff piece was by former MI6 officer Alan Petty, using his nom de plume Alan Judd, again on the building; and, apparently unabashed by […]
[…] present danger. * * * In an attempt to mobilise public opinion, a number of surveys were undertaken in Europe. In 1981 Kane Parsons Associates Inc of New York organised an opinion poll in London on American foreign policy. It was fronted by Prof. Donald J. Puchala, Director of the Institute on Western Europe, […]
[…] conscious musings on my part, I thought: ‘It must be John’ – and about six months experience suddenly reorganised itself in my head. Yes, it was my new running, drinking, talking, buddy John. He’d been pretty clever about it but I knew it was him. Through his girlfriend I let him know I had […]
A Franco-German Bomb? A study by the German historian Werner Abelhauser casts new light on Franco-German efforts to provide the youthful European Economic Community with military capability.(1) The essay is notable because it adds another dimension to our grasp of how and why the EEC was formed. Most modern work follows from the thesis […]
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in […]
[…] doyenne Charlotte Beers as Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. (1) She intended ‘commissioning research into the Arab mentality’, confirming what we already k new: the American Government has so little respect for its many Arab/Muslim citizens, it has had to commission research into who they are. Had the American government […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Seven years after the event, to its credit, the New York Times finally revealed a little of the story about the wind-up of the CIA’s Operation 40 because of its narcotics activities.(25) It did so an part of a series of stories exposing operations for which the CIA’s […]
[…] revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either k new nothing about the subject, or who, like chair Tom King, had been part of the system as a minister, said committee had investigated nothing of consequence […]
Dodgy dossiers Steven Kettell, author of Dirty politics? New Labour, British democracy and the invasion of Iraq (London: Zed Books, 2006), argues that New Labour wanted regime change in Iraq before Bush and before 9/11 and that the production of the WMD Dossier was one of the key components of a broader political strategy […]
The journal, The Round Table, originally the public face of the secret Round Table network, has reappeared after folding in the late 1970s. It’s new editorial board includes MPs Donald Anderson, Guy Barnett, Robert Jackson, Robert Rhodes-James, and Cabinet Minister Timothy Raison. Other well-known names about London’s elite circles involved are D.C. Watt and […]
