[…] the event (which could amount to what, realistically?), some of which material found its way into the book. So we may have had the French and Soviet secret states and the Kennedy network working discreetly together; at any rate in contact. Turner makes much of the insider information in Farewell America. Is there that […]
[…] a kind of theoretical framework for the case studies which follow it, Lawrence seeks to document “striking advances (which) have emerged in the functioning of the (U.S.) secret police.” For Lawrence, “By the end of the sixties it was clear to the establishment that its traditional methods of social control were weakening, and that […]
[…] he duly reported without comment. I have been told by a woman who knew Shaw very well throughout the 1950s and 60’s that Shaw’s homosexuality was no secret in his social circle. But while his friends might know he was gay New Orleans as a town did not. If I underscore his homosexuality it […]
[…] But in 1984 Jim Hougan produced one of the great pieces of research in post-war American politics and gave us a completely new account of Watergate, his Secret Agenda (New York, Ballantine, 1985; no UK edition). Hougan’s research was subsequently reworked by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in their Silent Coup (London: Gollancz, 1991). […]
[…] journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and a friend of hers, one Howard Rothberg. Rothberg told Kilgallen that Monroe had ‘ secrets’ including: ‘a visit by the President to a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of the visit. In the mid-fifties […]
[…] Chancellor Julius Raabe, the prerequisites for the Governmental Agreement were made public, BIS did everything possible to discredit Raabe. During the 1950s the BIS created a very secret department which was named Special Political Actions (SPA). The range of problems presented to the SPA was very broad. I’d like to give an excerpt from […]
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25 Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s […]
[…] to sustain the thesis, the text and footnotes are scattered with fascinating fragments. Suggestive examples He might be right. There are occasional examples which suggest that the secret state is playing silly buggers with the British political fringes. In recent years there have been some odd goings-on in Welsh Nationalism, with allegations of disinformation […]
[…] a bill under which it would become illegal to claim that any individual is an officer or agent of either the Security Service (MI5) or of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). It was also made known that the publication of British Intelligence and Covert Action last year was considered provocative in this respect. The […]
[…] to produce some of the best writing in the fields Lobster covers in NameBase Newsline. Issue 12 has a long essay by Brandt, ‘Mind Control and the Secret State’, about as good a short survey of the subject as exists. Back issues of Newsline in printed form are $3.00 each; a two year subscription […]
