The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Asil Nadir: the cover-up continues Asil Nadir’s death hit the media on 11 February. None of the obituaries which I have read strayed beyond the conventional line.1 The Times had a full […]
[PDF file]: […] served with a subpoena. This proves to be the key to understanding a substantial part of this episode. The FBI’s mail interception program had to be kept hidden (in fact it did not come to light until the 1970s); and doing so meant that the fact that the mis-addressed Nixie parcel had almost been […]
[PDF file]: […] meaningful category. Even when caught in the lie they can try to ride it out. What his memoir demonstrates is the continued importance of going after the hidden truth, exposing the public lie, stripping away the cover-up and, moreover, the impact that the truth can still have when it is brought into the light. […]
[PDF file]: […] 1 1 12,500, equivalent to 1 for every 123 of the population, a remarkably high ratio.2 As for the review of how intelligence was gathered, this was hidden from scrutiny, and implemented via a February 1981 memo. Walker and Oldfield gave the RUC Special Branch control of all areas of intelligence gathering. Any contacts […]
[PDF file]: […] peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia — with ‘collateral damage’ in the US itself. Much more needs to be said about this war since it remains largely hidden in the swamp of deniability. Finally there was the fourth Vietnam War: the unrelenting hostility combined with all the available systemic weapons deployed since 1975 in […]
[PDF file]: […] a policy of deliberate camouflage. All mention of Fascism and National Socialism was banned, and while the party would still be anti-Jewish, this too would be carefully hidden. Instead the party would position itself as anti-Communist, rather than pro-Nazi. A few British Nazis travelled to Germany to make propaganda broadcasts on behalf of the […]
[PDF file]: […] National Industrial Committee of the CPGB’. 10 The 1962 series of articles in the Sunday Times by the Tory MP Aidan Crawley, reprinted as a pamphlet, The Hidden Face of British Communism, had Kerrigan and the ‘advisory committees which meet in secret to decide how party policy is to be applied to their own […]
[PDF file]: […] his former colleagues follow the same pattern of omerta, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke aggressively so. The Blairs’ financial interests seem to be arranged to defy scrutiny, hidden in part behind the pious façade of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBBF). In its own self-description, ‘TBBF is a “think-do” tank, meaning that all of […]
[PDF file]: […] resources necessary for the British forces to have any serious chance of completing their mission successfully. Troop numbers were wholly inadequate. The resulting fiasco has been largely hidden from public view, not least courtesy of the Murdoch press that celebrated the whole sad affair as a glorious victory. But historians are certain to see […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* ‘Intelligence’ you call it? On Quora there are interesting posts by one Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, who describes himself as having been a member of Central Planning at NATO.1 Thus far no-one […]
