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 […]
[…] Leveller, but now I see exactly why they wanted this bit cut: the covert role of the intelligence and security services in British politics is the big secret. The spook in politics That covert role is one of the things fleetingly glimpsed in MI5’s pamphlet The Security Service (36 pages, £4.95 from HMSO). In […]
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
[…] Gerry Gable, Searchlight’ s editor, spread lies that we were Nazis.’ Freedom (18 September) commented in its review of the pamphlet that ‘Searchlight’s links to the ( secret) state are — or should be — well known’; and commented that Larry O’Hara had been ‘the victim of a sustained, and even more absurd smear […]
[…] this demonstration of New Labour’s commitment to freedom of information? Geraghty’s latest book, The Irish War. At first sight, Geraghty is a most unlikely target for the secret state. He is the author of the best-selling Who Dares Wins, a popular history of the SAS that played a major part in creating that regiment’s […]
[…] works by Epstein in an omnibus volume: Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of the Truth (1966), Counterplot: Garrison Against the World (1968), and Legend: the Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald (1978). Even if you have the three books already this edition is a must-get for the new introductions, afterwords and essays, […]
[…] Kissinger – he is the one who wants a higher price.”‘ ‘Yamani contends that proof of his long-held belief has recently emerged in the minutes of a secret meeting on a Swedish island where UK and US officials determined to orchestrate a 400% increase in the oil price.’ This is a huge story – […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 These three books dovetail together rather […]
[…] ravings a dollop duly arrived by e-mail. It was some kind of introduction to visitors to his Web site. It begins thus: ‘I reveal how a global secret society called the Illuminati (the ‘Illuminated Ones’ as they call themselves) have been holding the reins of power in the world since ancient times, expanding their […]
