[…] of C Company, nor unite the North and West Belfast Brigades against Gary McMichael, nor form links with Billy Wright’s UVF renegades, who became the LVF. (14) Secret state agendas Jonty Brown’s book raises general questions about collusion and also about the agendas of the secret state. In 1981 an American criminologist called Klockars […]
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs Douglas Valentine London/New York: Verso, 2004, h/back, £20 This comes garlanded with praise from Jim Hougan and Anthony Summers. The praise is justified: this is, as Hougan says, ‘a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting’; and it is, as Summers says, […]
[…] a book by the French historian Jean Doise who has examined French Army documents from the time. Doise has discovered that the affair developed because of French secret service attempts to disinform the Germans about the state of French military development. In other words, false documents were leaked to the Germans; and the authenticity […]
[…] homicide and not suicide.(2) This new information suggests that Frank Olsen was murdered because he was considered a security risk to the CIA’s highly sensitive and top secret mind control programmes. The Nuremberg trials revealed how far Nazi Germany had gone in the development of mind control means, using prisoners of war, as well […]
[…] including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a big toe into this area, examining the career of Noel Pemberton-Billing (1881-1948). Substantial original […]
[…] belief or simply unavailable to the public. (Some examples: ‘According to a high-ranking Pentagon official’, ‘according to Bruce Roberts, author of the Gemstone File’, ‘according to a secret CIA report’, etc.) Citations of this sort are the investigative equivalent of smoke and mirrors. In the event, Moore defines a professional conspiracist as one ‘who […]
[…] allowing parliamentarians to develop expertise in particular policy areas and questions whether the Intelligence and Security Committee has helped generate a wider parliamentary understanding of intelligence. (2) Secret histories A forthcoming official history of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee(3) (the organ responsible for issuing D-Notices)(4) has had its publication delayed following disagreements […]
[…] who ran a boys’ home, a lodge and Tara…and the people who tried to expose him — Jim Campbell, Sunday World 10 April 1983, pp.18-19. Why the Secret Service kept McGrath free — Jim Campbell, Sunday World, 17 April 1983, pp. 20-21. Why did it go on for so long? — John Hunter, Sunday […]
[…] to do what they liked when they liked with all activities nodded through by supine Home and Foreign Secretaries who were often mesmerised by the words ‘Top secret’. Ostensibly these agencies activities were secret. In reality what was secret were their activities impinging on civil liberties. The agencies ran huge leak machines to stoke […]
[…] much more: There were formulas for bomb making, 1,440 rounds of ammunition, and manuals from the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg marked “Top Secret for Training,” along with classified documents belonging to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The police found maps and drawings of New York City landmarks like […]
