[…] writing a favourable article in The Citizen, Feb. 27th 1978: British Tycoon Denies Tie-up With SA Government. See Winter below pp488-491. 9. Inside BOSS – South Africa’s Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) About to go out of print – essential reading. Caused Penguin considerable publishing and legal difficulties. (SD) 10. Economic Power […]
[…] period since the fall of the Berlin Wall. A great deal of this is new: Shayler is, as the authors say, the most important whistle-blower from the secret Whitehall world. His account is unprecedented in its scope and detail. This is also the best extant exposition of what we might call the politics of […]
[…] of oil per day (mbd). In 2004 the capacity was demonstrated to be 10 mbd. (p. xiii) As information regarding the reserves is ‘treated as a state secret’ (p. xiv) Simmons relied on in-depth research of many technical papers, not the least of those which give details of reports on water injection requirements. (Water […]
[…] Northern white sahibs retaliated by calling the white officials of the South, who were forever building schools and dispensaries, “nigger lovers”. ‘In this topsy turvy world of secret intelligence reports, MI5, pimps, prostitutes, rape and murder, presided over by the Colonial Office and Harold Macmillan, it was not surprising that the Nigerian political leader […]
[…] The subject is entirely missing. Amazing (and rather pathetic) that the subject is still such a no-no. (RR) 3. Smiley’s People Close Ranks Against Labour Plans For Secret Services (Peter Hennessy. T, June 6th 1983) If Labour had won the election, Whitehall’s bureaucratic machine would have gone into action. “The first tactic of officials […]
Introduction In early January the American writer Martin Cannon, whose ‘Mind Control and the American Government’, was published in Lobster 23, and who has a very interesting letter in this issue, offered me a big piece of his on the so-called Gemstone File. Cannon had got access to some of the original documents on which … Read more
[…] recent financial sources remain a mystery. Even so, even in the triangle Challen identifies as being at the heart of the British political system, the City, the secret state and the Conservative Party, there is quite a lot of information available Inevitably, the chapters on the pre-Thatcher years are thinner than those since she […]
[…] Third Decade have been able to examine for themselves the evidence for such startling revelations as the following: That the Zapruder film of the murder took a secret and unauthorized trip on the night of the murder to a CIA photographic laboratory in Washington D.C. That a second rifle (not the Mannlicher-Carcano supposedly used […]
[…] had conducted since the war. She was unaware of the enormity of the program and the legacy of despair it had left behind. She ordered 32 million secret documents to be reviewed for their release to the public and pledged to compensate the victims. She thought she was alluding to about only 800 people, […]
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When … Read more
