[…] name ‘surfaced’ in 1984, though they fail to inform the reader that this was actually when Holroyd first spoke to the media, via Duncan Campbell in the New Statesman. (22) Ambush says Nairac ‘boasted’ of killing Green, and predictably describes Ken Livingston’s claims about Nairac in his maiden speech to Parliament as ‘unsubstantiated’. But […]
[…] in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence yet — what […]
[…] US experience suggests that polygraph tests wrongly clear 1 in 4 guilty suspects. (Guardian 19th October 1983) On polygraph’s failings: Douglas Carroll (Guardian 26th May 1983) and New Scientist (15th December 1983) Summary of the story so far: Richard Norton-Taylor (Guardian 16th November) and Hennessy (Times 16 November 1983) UK Government buys six polygraphs […]
[…] by incurring severe operational penalties. Britain’s ability to perform a meaningful role in NATO and in its wider commitments would be undermined. DEFE 5/188/12 suggested that the new climate called for new contingency planning. Above all the maintenance of public services affected by strikes should now embrace the use of ‘civilian volunteers’, particularly skilled […]
[…] by the Libertarian Alliance, and reading their account of it, I printed the bit in Lobster 37 p.49, and brought the story to the attention of the New Statesman/Observer columnist Nick Cohen. Eventually I got an e-mail from Henderson telling me that Cohen had contacted him and was going to write up the story […]
[…] OFFICER 1938 Z-NETWORK 1940 ALGIERS HOS 1942 GIBRALTAR HOS 1945 RESIGNED. WORKED AS LABOURER AT WATNEYS BREWERIES BROTHER OF WILLIAM MELVILLE CODRINGTON CMG (1946) B16.12.1892, D 29.4.63 NEW COLL OXFORD 1914-18 SIGNAL SERVICE MC 1918 3RD SEC FO, 2ND SEC TANGIER 1925 RESIGNED 1939 MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC WARFARE 1940 HEAD OF SECURITY DEPT 1942-45 […]
[…] on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite saying of mine is: ‘If they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody’.…… The particular evil […]
Paul Johnson, former editor of the New Statesman turned ‘new right’ Thatcherite, turned his hack hand to KAL 007 in a review of Alexander Dallin’s Black Box KAL 007 and the Superpowers (University of California Press 1985) in the Times Literary Supplement (August 23 1985). Johnson asks the question: “How could a Korean pilot […]
[…] the possibility of a Four Power (Britain, France, Germany and Italy) conference on the Munich model which would propose partitioning Poland in Hitler’s favour. This is interesting new background but it does not add much at all to what we now know. There already was plenty of evidence that HMG would have done a […]
[…] out a story claiming that the IRA had hired American Vietnam vets to do its killing for them. (‘Paddy’ couldn’t really shoot straight was the subtext.) A new variation on this appeared – where else? – but in The Sunday Telegraph on 10 March 2002. After a sniper killed ten Israeli civilians and soldiers […]
