[…] of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CI0). Stiff reveals, among other things, his involvement in a campaign of bombing and assassination in Zambia and in an abortive conspiracy to assassinate Robert Mugabe during the Lancaster House talks in London. After Aden, Stiff went on to help train the police in Kenya. (‘In spite of […]
[…] media plays a role as the primary informer of the citizen. The ongoing Di show The report of Operation Paget, the Metropolitan Police’s investigation of the Di conspiracy theories, available on the Net in PDF form (see Terry Hanstock’s ‘Re :’ in this issue), is worth looking at. For the student of the British […]
[…] an IRA ‘alliance with the London based Black Liberation Front.‘ (p22) (Special Forces is edited by a former British Army officer, Peter Harclerode.) The themes of insidious conspiracy and subversion within have always been a part of the British Right’s ideological package, but in the past few years they have become much more explicit. […]
[…] outcome was quite interesting. In the ‘Lombard’ column of the Financial Times, C. Gordon Tether wrote on May 6 1975: ‘If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.’ In a column written almost a year […]
[…] intentions and consequences that the state’s legal-rational precepts attempt to inscribe. The outputs that emerge are not always those envisaged by policy-makers. This is not necessarily a conspiracy agenda or intention behind the uses and abuses of political power. Nor are they the inevitable outcome of Britain’s particular constitutional arrangements. Thus the secret state […]
[…] Menzies before the war, but was frozen out by Churchill, who saw him as an appeaser and Germanophile, also claimed that he was the victim of a conspiracy and had been framed by covert supporters of the Cambridge Comintern, supporters who had, by the time of his trial and conviction for fraud in 1963, […]
[…] senses the difference between good and bad parapolitical research hinges on this question. At its worst all the links are perceived as causal and you have vulgar conspiracy theories: ‘Its all the fault of…’. The rest of us fall somewhere short of that, and for the most part Bellant’s attribution of causality is restrained. […]
[…] After arrest at Faslane base women held for 30 hours, 4 to a cell, continuous lighting, no bedding. (Guardian 1 September – letter) Peace protesters charged with conspiracy – first such charge for 20 years. (Times 1 September) (c) and computers Home Office doubts about value of computers. There is no evidence that they […]
[…] Friends from Birmingham politics were warning me of this radicalism and its potential for violence in the late 1990s – and added that there was a collusive conspiracy of silence between local media and the authorities to down play incidents for fear of ‘upsetting race relations’. The ‘hawks’ therefore have a point that ‘doves’ […]
[…] in Chile, was expelled to the United States for questioning about the Letelier assassination. He subsequently turned state’s evidence and testified about his key role in the conspiracy. Townley’s significance is that he was one of DINA’s most important agents and many of the DINA operations described in Labyrinth are written from his point […]
