Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close … Read more
[…] the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of Langley, Virginia, and SIS. The revelation here in respect of the Philby affair is his discovery, years later, that Dennis Hamilton, the editor-in-chief of […]
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler […]
[…] government be it noted the British Youth Council was said to be financed by the Foreign Office, though that may be a euphemism for MI6, the British secret intelligence service. In 1977 Mandelson and one Charles Clarke, another familiar name, then head of the British National Union of Students, put together a delegation from […]
[…] is underway. Kevin McClure wrote about this in the second editon of his new newsletter Abduction Watch. Although the content of the stories varies from claims of secret British operations to cover-up the murder and mutilation of British citizens by aliens, to more mundane tales of secret bases and secret military units, the seven […]
The Spy who came in from the Co-op David Burke Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The author was conducting a series of interviews with 87-year old Melita Norwood about her childhood among a group of pro-Soviet radical exiles in England in the 1920s and 30s, when it was revealed in the press, via … Read more
[…] to journalists who didn’t have time to do the research. Eventually Steve and I wrote a book about the campaigns against Harold Wilson, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State. (Writing this is the reason Lobsters 20, 21 and 22 were rather thin.) After which Steve began writing another book and I continued producing Lobster. […]
[…] had apparently not been released into the public domain. In The Independent (24 August 1998) Paul Lashmar, in ‘Pearl Harbour conspiracy is bunk’, reported that the ‘ secret file’ believed to contain the aforementioned ‘secret telegram’ had been released into the Public Record Office – and there was no secret telegram. In response to […]
[…] since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help “create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power”. Working under this extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name – the Iraqi National Congress – and served as their media guru and […]
[…] UK. £45 This is a magnificent reference book which will prove indispensable to anyone interested in politics. It is a godsend to academics, activists, researchers, journalists and secret policemen. Although the author is politically more to what most people would term ‘the right’, this work is written, as the publisher’s blurb correctly puts it, […]
