[…] (see his previous work on Shadrin) with many new interviews and material. Due soon from Carter’s Director of the CIA, Admiral Stansfield Turner (Rhodes Scholar 1947), is Security and Democracy: the CIA in transition. And a new blockbuster is on the way from Anthony Summers, he of File on the Czar and Conspiracy fame. […]
[…] America, a couple of years before. For ‘Torbitt’ lays the blame not at the CIA’s door, but jointly on the FBI and something called the Defence Industries Security Command. (On the latter I have never seen any evidence that it ever existed; and if anyone has any, I would like to see it.) The […]
[…] health care or education?’ A flicker of a smile crossed McColl’s lips. “Ah, young man, you overlook the fact that we are still on the United Nations security council, unlike Germany and Japan. Britain has international responsibilities much greater than its economic wealth might suggest.” ‘ Ah yes, responsibilities, the white man’s burden, the […]
[…] guess he really cares about, is that SIS got it right. There it is, out front, in the final paragraph of his introduction. “Both SIS and the Security Service..have officers with as keen a sense of realities as the most sceptical student of Britain’s recent history…One such officer, in Lagos during the Nigerian Civil […]
[…] welcoming words for Coughlin? ‘Con is a journalist par excellence for our times. His skills and expertise are right at the heart of the foreign, defence and security issues that confront us daily.’ Evening Standard business editor Chris Blackhurst also seems to be a bit slow catching on. He started a recent glowing piece […]
[…] of Afghanistan have been a matter of imperial indifference. On Washington’s agenda in this case are secure oil and gas pipelines, military bases, and, if and when security can be instituted, the forces of globalisation will march in. Meanwhile in Iraq, what the US bombing, invasion and occupation have brought to the people there […]
Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement 1923-1945 Julie Gottlieb, London: I.B. Tauris, 2000, £39.50 The Viceroy’s Daughters Anne de Courcy London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £20.00 Blackshirts on-Sea J. S. Booker London: Brockinday Publications, 1999, £18.00 Fascism is generally regarded as a fiercely masculine political movement committed to excluding women from the worlds … Read more
Nicola Calipari’s death If the tragic death of ‘Nicola Calipari’, the international oper-ations chief of Italy’s military intelligence service, in March 2005, was, as has been alleged, a deliberate act rather than misadventure, it is one of the most recent examples of extreme PR ‘message management’ I can think of. ([1]) ‘Public relations’ is about … Read more
[…] Pitzer, with a foreword by Major General John K. Singlaub (Rtd). Singlaub (an old buddy of mercenary and arms dealer Mitch Werbell) is active in the American Security Council, and on the board of Western Goals, brainchild of right-wingers Larry McDonald (a leading John Bircher who died in KAL 007), and John Rees, editor […]
[…] Press. (2) The first part of the book argues that Diana was killed by a joint MI6/CIA operation, the actual execution being carried out by a private security firm. In the words of one of the authors’ anonymous sources, it was a ‘deniable op’. King and Beveridge’s account goes like this: on the night […]
