[…] 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 […]
The SAS, MI6 and the War Whitehall Nearly Lost Nigel West Little Brown and Company, 1996, £16.99 There are two substantial essays in here, one about the SAS raid on the Argentine mainland which didn’t take place, and the other about the SIS operation to prevent the French delivering any more Exocets to the Argentine … Read more
Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing Box 555, Nelson, New Zealand $25 (New Zealand) 1996 Sample chapters at http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/sp/ This was mentioned briefly in the Guardian some months ago. Hager has done a Duncan Campbell and stitched together, in incredible detail, New Zealand’s contribution to the NSA-run global network of communications interception. But his work goes … Read more
[…] in Germany were reaching similar conclusions at the same time. The same month that Tardini briefed Pius XII the Abwehr chief in Spain, von Faupel, made a secret visit to Argentina where he met the Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine army, von der Becke, an officer of German origin, and the former Argentine military attaché […]
[…] too convenient; and too, too neat. Republican News, the paper of Sinn Fein, commented a couple of weeks later: ‘We are now left with the UOP (Polish Secret Service), MI5 and MI6…. all claiming a success. MI5 has justified the continuation of its funding. The British government is seen to have delivered a blow […]
Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith Feral House, PO Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208 (), 1996, $19.95 Of all the current parapolitical ‘biggies’ floating around, the one I would not have enjoyed trying to piece together is this one; and I am grateful to Thomas and Keith for doing so. Casolaro was, on this account, a … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt Richard Webster Oxford: The Orwell Press, 2005, £25 This is an account of the various child abuse and satanic abuse cases that developed across the UK from the mid ’80s onwards. At the phenomenon’s peak, around 1995, many police forces were […]
Anthony Summers Gollancz, London, £18.99 Summers and his team of researchers have proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Hoover was gay and that he had been bought off and blackmailed by the Mob into ignoring organised crime. (I am less convinced by the evidence supporting the secondary allegations that Hoover was a transvestite.) Hoover, in … Read more
