Dan Briody Hoboken (USA): John Wiley and Sons, 2003, £17.50 (hb) According to the Carlyle Group, once you ‘peel away the layers of factual errors and self-righteousness of The Iron Triangle, ‘… all you’re left with is baseless innuendo… [and]… this book should be exposed for what it is: a compilation of recycled conspiracy … Read more
[…] first Bond-like rendezvous, but it would certainly be the most startling. We had agreed to meet in order that the source could tell me about a highly secret US operation known as ‘Black Dog.’ Neither of us trusted electronic communication and, therefore, a face-to-face meeting was essential. The meeting followed a story I had […]
[…] Unit’ at the White House. (34) This group included “people superbly trained in explosives” and “specialists in weapons”: as Bill Moyers observed, it too was “a small secret army”. Barker dissented from Moyers’ allegations that Operation Diamond was preparing to perform political “kidnappings” and “assassinations”, but only on semantic grounds: (“there is a difference […]
[…] notable pieces is very useful. This latest edition includes the significant extracts from the Defence Attache article on 007, a two page review/article on Loftus’ The Belarus Secret, and precis on events in Italy, Peru, Africa, Mozambique, Iran, the General Collins trial mentioned in Lobster 1, (which has never been followed up in the […]
[…] start the counter-revolution. Scott Newton is Reader in Modern British and International History at Cardiff University. Notes See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London, 1991), pp. 78-9. Alan S. Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation State (London, 2000), p. 389. Scott Newton, ‘Wilson and Sterling in 1964’, […]
[…] of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster 9 and Lobster 10. EASTON, Air Comdr. Sir James Alfred KCMG (1956), CB […]
[…] swept under the carpet. But the real concern remains the potential for a much more widespread collapse of internal order. The Sunday Times (24 December) revealed a ‘secret memo’ from the government that expressed what can only be described as sheer panic on the part of the authorities at the expectation of a rise […]
[…] ensure new digital telecommunication systems do not hinder surveillance capabilities, and requiring the installation of monitoring capacity in these systems for national security/law enforcement purposes: ‘Acting in secret and without parliamentary knowledge or government supervision, the FBI through ILETS has since 1993 steered government and communications policy across the world. In the shadows behind […]
[…] effectively reduce the political influence of TNCs, European economies must be weaned from their dependence upon these corporations. Statewatch Statewatch has published a collection of 60 hitherto secret European Union documents and reports on policing, immigration, asylum, the Trevi group etc. Key Texts on Justice and Home Affairs in the European Union, Vol 1, […]
[…] the American media, its ownership, control and biases. No information on the cost of foreign subscriptions is given, so write and ask if outside the US. Top Secret is the English-language version of the German parapolitical magazine Geheim. So far only the first issue, 0/88, has come our way, though a second issue is […]
