[…] self-image, to a large extent, that the US is not an imperial power,(1) its actual imperial policies have to be carried out as far as possible in secret; certainly far away from the gaze of the American electorate and their politicians. In so doing the US has mostly sided with the rich, the powerful, […]
[…] Tapes’, ‘A seamy saga of smears, death and vendetta. Or how two Tory MPs, a fish and chip shop owner, and a Blackpool wheeler dealer with a secret grudge tried to ruin a socialist millionaire.’ 29 April Christopher More called Murrin to ask what was in the Esquire article. Murrin said he was just […]
[…] America, and specifically covering up the mess in London left by Calvi’s death. In the final chapter Willan recounts how a young Silvio Berlusconi joined the P2 secret society a couple of years before it was exposed, and describes P2 boss Gelli’s plan to take control of Italian society by buying the media and […]
[…] them! Some of Nagell’s claims — that he was ordered by the KGB to murder Oswald, or that he was put in the same cell as jailed Secret Service officer Abraham Bolden (who claimed to have helped foil an attempted JFK hit on 2 October 1963, at Soldier Field, Chicago) — are impossible to […]
[…] American liberal-left who were so easily persuaded to surrender their independence and their critical judgement by the red scare of the early Cold War. I SPY: The Secret Life of a British Agent Geoffrey Elliott St Ermin’s Press/Little, Brown, London, 1998, £18.99 The agent in question was Elliott’s father, Kavan, about whom Elliott knew […]
[…] Wilson began trying to distance himself from her; but he couldn’t ditch her, even though he wanted to. Falkender had some kind of grip on Wilson, some secret which she held over him. Picking up fragments of gossip, Donoughue ventures, tentatively, that Wilson had made some dodgy money somewhere which Falkender could reveal. Donoughue […]
[…] Journalists is calling for Edwards’ expulsion from its ranks on the wholly justifiable grounds that he violated its code of ethics. Peter Kornbluh, ‘The El Mercurio file: secret documents shed new light on how the CIA used a newspaper to foment a coup’, Columbia Journalism Review, (5) (September-October 2003), pp.14-19 (also available at < […]
[…] the UCA as a real if somewhat mysterious group. (According to Wallace the Information Policy paper was written by Jeremy Railton, sometime head of Inf Pol, the secret psychological operations unit for which Wallace worked.) It could be argued, of course, that were the UCA a psychological operation the British state forces would do […]
[…] DCIA Casey. 14. Maj. Gen. Richard B. Collins, charged IHT report (19th July 1983) on forthcoming trial of Maj. Gen. Richard B. Collins, charged with ripping-off a secret Air Force fund kept in Swiss banks to finance covert ops. Collins’ lawyer says Collins will detail the way the fund was used for military and […]
[…] 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 […]
