[…] was the refusal of Britain’s spies to disclose what they knew about their Iraqi counterparts that led to the fiasco surrounding the latest British dossier.’ Michael Smith, ‘Secret service stand on sources led to blunder’, Daily Telegraph, 8 February, < http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/main jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/08/ndoss 108.xml/ > . 10 ‘Blair Acknowledges Flaws in Iraq Dossier’ < […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 heart of the disclosures over the Kincora scandal is an internal row in the intelligence services. A dissident faction is thought to have formed in the Secret Service. The scuffles over revelations concerning Kincora started with the writing of a book by Rupert Allason, pen name Nigel West, son of a leading MI6 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] set up by Sir Maurice Oldfield. * * * Gradually the pieces are coming together, though it will turn out to be a very large jigsaw. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) set up a Northern Irish section in the Conway Hotel at Dunmurray. Headed by Frank Howard Smith with Philip Woodhead as his desk […]
