[…] free-floating entity independent of Moscow Gold or control. The KGB line is close to being abandoned. The 1970s in Northern Ireland were really the last time our secret state seriously tried to market the Moscow connection, without notable success. The Moscow line conspicuously failed in this country in 1983/4 when it was half-heartedly run […]
[…] effectively reduce the political influence of TNCs, European economies must be weaned from their dependence upon these corporations. Statewatch Statewatch has published a collection of 60 hitherto secret European Union documents and reports on policing, immigration, asylum, the Trevi group etc. Key Texts on Justice and Home Affairs in the European Union, Vol 1, […]
[…] 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 – […]
[…] KEVIN McNAMARA: To ask Mr. Attorney General, if he will prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, former senior information officer, Psychops, Army Headquarters, Norther Ireland for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 in the magazine Lobster in April. Member’s Constituency: Kingston Upon Hull North (Lab) Answer: […]
Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the global nuclear weapons conspiracy Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark London: Atlantic Books, 2007, £25, h/b This is not an area I have any expertise in and I am hardly competent to review this. But I found this big (500 pages), massively-documented book an absolutely riveting read. The authors’ … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of Langley, Virginia, and SIS. The revelation here in respect of the Philby affair is his discovery, years later, that Dennis Hamilton, the editor-in-chief of […]
[…] of documentation and notes, this is a model of its kind. A model of how not to do things is Andrew Murray Scott and Iain Macleay’s Britain’s Secret War: Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo American State (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1990. With only the slightest acquaintance with the ‘Anglo-American state’ (calling MI5 ‘DI5’, for example, and […]
[…] all about? Well, I and Sir Teddy Taylor (a British Member of Parliament) are trying to force the British government to investigate two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the “Bulgarian Umbrella” murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into […]
Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close … Read more
