[…] Glass’ (reviewed Lobster 3). ‘West’ lumps it in with Bloch and Fitzgerald’s British Intelligence and Covert Action: “both books contained the names of active members of the Secret Intelligence Service and caused disquiet on the sixth floor of Century House.” (Times 19th March) West thus demonstrates that he probably didn’t read Verrier – which […]
[…] eliminated during the storming of the Iranian Embassy in May 1980 had no unfortunate side effects because the terrorists had no popular support. Similar ruthlessness in the secret war against the IRA, however, did have serious drawbacks precisely because they did have a popular constituency in Northern Ireland. One of the main concerns of […]
[…] services are headed by former British operatives, while in the late 1970s it was disclosed that a special squad of 30 British officers had been working in secret in Turkey advising the Government there on anti-terrorist measures. The British Government, however, does not always do things so directly. Several ostensibly commercial firms exist training […]
[…] and after a tour of duty in Europe, returned to South Vietnam in 1954 as an aide to the above-mentioned Ed Lansdale, to help organize the CIA’s secret anti-communist forces in North Vietnam. As a measure of his knack for deceit and deception, it is worth noting that one of Conein’s favorite ‘dirty tricks’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] he helped set up and European magazines which followed its example, the French Intelligence and Parapolitics (later Intelligence) and the German Geheim and its English-language version, Top Secret. This report portrays them all as part of Soviet disinformation strategies. If this was true of Geheim/Top Secret, I don’t think it true of Intelligence. Lobster […]
[…] on the British government to send the SAS into Dundalk and hunt down dissident republicans by deadly force. As Irish Home Affairs Minister Brian Cowan was in secret talks with dissident republicans at the time and the Garda Siochana were prevented from dealing with dissident republicans appropriately, Johnny McLaughlin was right. He was nonetheless […]
[…] Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ After reading this I thought: sure, he is innocent and I’m Santa Claus! But my interest in this story grew because my house in […]
[…] of Dave Spart? RR: You keep trying to patronise me and it always misses. The reference to Dave Spart simply tells me you have never read Lobster. Secret servants Red faces at NATO where the official NATO Website carried for two months an English translation of an article, which had originally appeared in Croatia, […]
[…] of Hennessy’s books. His Cabinet, for example, is full of interesting bits and pieces. But like most British political scientists, Hennessy is wholly unwilling to discuss the secret arms of the British state. In his most recent book, a series of interviews he did for Radio 4 published as Muddling Through; Power, Politics and […]
