[…] the Berlin Wall fell the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we k new already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well […]
[…] to the original Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File. As it turned out, the process was further down that road than I had imagined. From Owen Wilkes, New Zealand’s leading parapolitics researcher, comes the news that a version is in circulation there. Now described as ‘Skeleton Key to the Gemstone file, 1932-86’, this has […]
A new royalty? A few weeks before former BBC political editor Andrew Marr received two Broadcasting Press Guild awards – one as ‘best TV performer in a non-acting role’ – his journalistic colleagues were quietly made aware of a little drama in his own life. Typical of the message from editorial lawyers circulated among […]
[…] chief local surrogate gone, the Carter Administration launched a rearmament programme (which as Sanders shows was in full swing before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), and the new Cold War was on. Meanwhile the militarist wing of the US establishment had been mobilising. The coalition of hard liners in the intelligence community and the […]
Peter Oborne London: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2005, £7.99, p/b Before his minutely detailed account of some of New Labour’s lies Oborne gives us a potted history of lying in the past 25 years to show us how relatively truthful New Labour’s predecessors were. This old nag won’t run. For example, […]
[…] the dismissal of DGSE head Admiral Pierre Lacoste and the resignation of Charles Hernu, the Defence Minister and responsible for DGSE. Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and new Defence Minister Paul Quiles gave former Chief of Army Staff General Rene Imbot the task of setting the DGSE house in order. The problems facing Imbot […]
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; […]
Pinneo and beyond See note (1) ‘The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists’ ability to probe people’s minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.’ So wrote Ian Simple, referring to certain very recent research into the technological inference of […]
[…] was to gain support from both the remnants of the Die-hard tradition, who were dismayed by the collapse of the British empire, and ex-fascists who resented Mosley’s new European idea. In spite of the old-fashioned political tactics its role was to be seminal in the founding of the National Front in 1967.’ Candour was […]
[…] when leaving… house… But… was not just a bad driver, but one who could not drive at all….He was unable to recognise clutch or, still worse, k new how to operate it.’ Trainer prints were found in the house but ‘there was no evidence to link him with the wearing of trainer shoes at […]
