The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Spook-wise Christopher Moran’s ‘Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers, and the Cold War’1 takes us back to the 1970s and the appearance of CIA ‘defectors’, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp and Victor Marchetti, and the […]
[…] that children were physically and sexually abused. And that list does include Clockwork Orange – the MI5 operation to smear British politicians, which was exposed by Colin Wallace. But there is a downside: for such an extraordinary story, the author – Irish barrister, David Burke – has provided zero documentation.37 Some of the content […]
[…] that children were physically and sexually abused. And that list does include Clockwork Orange – the MI5 operation to smear British politicians, which was exposed by Colin Wallace. But there is a downside: for such an extraordinary story, the author – Irish barrister, David Burke – has provided zero documentation.22 Some of the content […]
[…] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]
[PDF file]: […] Challenger 3. Each of the Challenger 3s will cost nearly £5.5 million; total order £800 million. As part of the launch of this story, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was reported as saying this tank is better than anything the Russians have.7 This really is bizarre. Mr Wallace is apparently envisaging a tank battle somewhere […]
[PDF file]: […] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty In my local library book sale I picked up a copy of Dominic Sandbrook’s 2019 account of the early years of Mrs Thatcher, Who Dares Wins. Yes, the title is meant […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the top of […]
[…] Challenger 3. Each of the Challenger 3s will cost nearly £5.5 million; total order £800 million. As part of the launch of this story, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was reported as saying this tank is better than anything the Russians have.3 This really is bizarre. Mr Wallace is apparently envisaging a tank battle somewhere […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister […]
