[…] from the country, but are instead welcome guests, mixing freely with both New Labour and Conservative politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning with the 1953 coup in Iran and the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Since then […]
When Labour narrowly won the October 1964 election they were greeted by dismal balance of payments figures. An external deficit in the region of £800 million was forecast, twice what had been expected (although the actual figure has since been revised down to £372 million). The government attempted to manage the crisis by a package … Read more
Blair and Gladstone Tony Blair’s Labour Party conference speech this year galvanised the delegates who were especially moved by his suggestions that Britain could play the role of an international troubleshooter, bringing liberal values, civilisation and the benefits of its skills in conflict resolution to troubled parts of the world. There were however some more … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] longtime investigator of the Mafia and author of the very good Dark Victory (about Ronald Reagan’s mob connections), was one of many researchers to finger a Cuban-American security guard named Thane Eugene Cesar as a possible second gunman. Now he has reversed himself, claims Sirhan Sirhan acted alone, and has threatened the Baltimore Sun […]
[…] text of this memoir into a tape-recorder and didn’t bother proof-reading the transcript (or doing an index). Thus in McAlpine’s memory IRD is ‘a branch of the security services, called, I believe, something like IDA….’ and Ernest Wistrich of the European Movement is ‘Ernest Wisterage’. Extra! the magazine of FAIR http://www.fair.org Also worth checking […]
[…] details from my book. I didn’t have to worry though as the man who brought out Philip Agee’s A CIA Diary (Penguin 1975), Neil Middleton knew what security was about. But that didn’t stop the spooks. . Someone still managed to steal (from Penguin’s offices) all the BOSS documents and various other papers which […]
[…] international money orders, payable to Counterpoise at 1716 SW Williston Road, Gainesville, Florida 32608-4049, USA. Surveillant A free issue of Surveillant: Acquisitions and Commentary for Intelligence and Security Professionals has arrived. Vol. 4 numbers 4 and 5, is 96 indexed pages of book reviews in the fields of intelligence history and technology, crime, drug […]
[…] (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. […]
[…] conspiratorial. He suggests ‘the timing of this is not fortuitous: ….the Conservative Victories in 1979 and 1983, the defeat of the miners in 1985 (in which the security services played an intelligence gathering role)….. the collapse of cherished beliefs….. led inescapably to the conclusion that there was a right-wing conspiracy which had hoodwinked the […]
