[…] Mrs T’s mentor, wasn’t briefing her on this? Hugo Young, in the Guardian, April 30, 1987 observed that ‘Airey Neave…. was, among other things, her tutor in security matters, in which she immediately took the keenest interest, attending frequent briefings through the very active Tory network in both MI5 and MI6.’ Not mentioned by […]
[…] I agreed with the anonymous columnist in the Leveller, but now I see exactly why they wanted this bit cut: the covert role of the intelligence and security services in British politics is the big secret. The spook in politics That covert role is one of the things fleetingly glimpsed in MI5’s pamphlet The […]
[…] and/or real estate, which is one reason why the dollar is being kept artificially low. In America’s case, this went wrong because of the introduction of extra security measures which meant hours of queuing/discourtesy at US airports, a good example of a well-known PR pitfall: the inability to align the strategies and policies of […]
See note(1) The Conventional Wisdom It is generally assumed that the economist J. M. Keynes was instrumental in establishing the post-war Anglo-American economic relationship. The argument is that, along with the US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Harry Dexter White, Keynes created the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now … Read more
[…] of a souk to the next, faster than she could think. 22 Home Secretary David Blunkett sent an ‘unprecedented apology to Muslims living in Britain after the security services were accused of engaging indiscriminate “fishing expeditions” to try to find evidence of links to the al-Qaida terror group’. The Observer 25 August 2002. In […]
[…] two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow’s news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam soldiers being recruited to fight with the I.R.A. as paid gunmen and saboteurs. Until […]
[…] felt obliged to parrot the line written for him by civil servants on the subject. Another source for some of this information is bureaucratic infighting among British security and intelligence agencies for budget share and status. This used to be kept within Whitehall but is now conducted in part in the media.(1) Like a […]
[…] torture centres outside the US. This complements the cherry-picking of the best building contracts in Iraq by American companies and the fact that the number of private security personnel in Iraq now outnumbers serving British soldiers three to one. It is further complemented by the profits to be made in the manufacture of hi-tech […]
[…] covers all the areas under the “third pillar” of the European Union covering policing, Europol, immigration and asylum, the Schengen agreements, the European courts, legal cooperation, internal security agencies, prisons, the military, Northern Ireland, racism and fascism, plus listings of the debates and resolutions of the European Parliament. With 24 contributors from 12 European […]
[…] can go’. Oddly – or not – Bilderberg is not in the index. Generalissimo Somehow it was terribly cheering to learn from a posting by the National Security Archive (1) that General Pinochet ‘had used multiple aliases and false identification to maintain over 125 secret bank accounts at the Riggs National Bank and eight […]
