[…] knocked to the ground by the head of Colosio’s civil security, FERNANDO DE LA SOTA and ALEJANDRO GARCIA HINOJOSO. De La Sota is the head of a secret organization, ‘Grupo Omega’, supposedly set up to provide additional security for Colosio. Garcia Hinojoso is also a member of the security detail and of the Omega […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00 Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox i.e. secret diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]
[…] 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 […]
