Feedback Re: the apparent post-war interrogation of Heinrich Muller and the purported German intercept of the Churchill-Roosevelt telephone conversation – in Lobster 35 pp. 20/21Chris Othen reports that the alleged intercept is taken from a book by Gregory Douglas, Gestapo Chief (R.J. Bender Publications, 1998). He writes: ‘This is one of those situations where the […]
[…] are both conveniently ‘private’, which allows the Conservative Government to keep at arms length the ‘dirty tricks’ of the CPS and the smear tactics of MP Winston Churchill in CDMD. CDMD is actually a tightly organised group of the Conservative Party hierarchy. It includes Winston Churchill, who chaired the co-ordinating (anti-CND groups) Committee For […]
[…] Minister of Canada, Mackenzie King. One of the letters from Lord Willingdon, who was apparently one of those involved in the ‘peace plots’, and who tipped off Churchill via Mackenzie King, refers to ‘the problem we have with the double’. Lord Wigram, the King’s equerry, was told by Lord Willingdon that the King was […]
Hugo Young Macmillan, 1998, £20 I cannot stand Hugo Young. He is a long-winded, pompous arsehole whose columns in the Guardian are mostly a waste of paper and ink. But he has his uses, notably as a mouthpiece for the Foreign Office. In this book he has revealed in infinitely greater detail than before the … Read more
[…] Yalta and subsequently was an ardent supporter of Russia’s story.” (20) De Courcy had personal dealings with Rothschild, if only indirectly. The story is that Rothschild approached Churchill in 1942 and advised the Prime Minister that the Soviets felt that de Courcy should be locked up under Section 18b. Moscow asserted that de Courcy’s […]
Part One A to B See also: Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) Georg Simmel said ‘The purpose of secrecy is above all protection. […]
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood (New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) Honorable Men […]
[…] little man. Kent began keeping copies of ‘interesting’ US diplomatic cables for his own ‘private collection’. He eventually had over 1500. They included correspondence between Roosevelt and Churchill about assistance the US which was then neutral could give the UK. Kent had also requested a move to the US Embassy in Berlin […]
Through The Looking Glass: British Foreign Policy In An Age Of Illusions Anthony Verrier (Cape, London 1983) This will probably turn out to be an important book, maybe even a little landmark in the (scanty) literature on British foreign policy since the war. So far it has been largely ignored by the literary/political establishment, receiving […]
[…] Reports of the Committees (Washington: GPO, 1867). Quoted in Rae Allen Billington, Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (New York: MacMillan, 1974), p. 568; Ward Churchill, A Little Matter of Genocide (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997), p. 234. Smith’s objectivity was challenged at the time, but today even defenders of the […]
