The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London on 1 May was preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone.(1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to … Read more
[…] of the word risks linkage with other spook employers: a courageous former British agent who worked inside the IRA has warned that he was ‘dumped’ by the security forces. ‘When you are no longer of use, they leave you high and dry with no regard for your family, your children or you.'(21) There, too, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Bentsen, Lloyd M. Former Secretary of the Treasury; Partner, Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand, Chartered (??) USA Berger, Samuel R. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs USA Bergsten, C. Fred Director, Institute for International Economics USA Bernstein Richard Book Critic, New York Times USA Bryan, John H. Chairman and CEO, Sara […]
[…] go to Military Operations at the War Office after Malaya, with a brief that covered Aden, Kuwait and the Oman. He was involved in establishing an internal security headquarters in Aden, where the political situation was already deteriorating. This failed to prevent Britain’s most humiliating postwar defeat. He was also involved in setting up […]
[…] telephone call, I was sent a photocopy of the review of Smear! by Robert Cecil from the Winter ’92 issue of the Journal of Intelligence and National Security. To quote the biographical material on his book about Guy Burgess, A Divided Life (Bodley Head, London, 1988), Mr Cecil is a former Head of the […]
[…] trafficking in Kosovo and …the confluence between terrorism and organized crime, and the increasingly fluid, almost transient nature of their organizational structures’. Thomas Gambill, a former OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) security officer in Kosovo, from whom we may hear a great deal, is beginning to blow the whistle in this essay.
[…] throwing off some of the vile nonsense perpetrated in the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher years? The release of various official US documents which could easily have been withheld on national security grounds – eg on the CIA’s role in Guatemala in the 1960s – suggest something like this.(2) The atrocities of the 1980s in Central America, for […]
[…] Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in Whitehall for an LFI event in April that caused the re-routing of a march to the Cenotaph of retired British service personnel seeking equity […]
[…] that, although some of these rumours may have involved no more than ‘loose talk by gin-sodden generals’, they were taken seriously enough to be ‘investigated by the security services’.(47) IV Britain’s social democratic moment The King affair can be viewed on three levels. First of all, it was evidence of the poor relations between […]
