[…] ‘Disinformation Operations of the KGB through Paese Sera…… In 1967, Department A of the First Chief Directorate conducted a series of disinformation operations…… One such emplacement in New York was through Paese Sera.’ (7) Holland found one reference – said ’emplacement’ – exactly where you would expect to find KGB disinformation in America: not […]
[…] Henri Paul was drunk and the ‘accident’ was indeed an accident.(8) A couple of points should be made, however. Stevens high-lighted the fact that a number of new eyewitnesses had been traced and interviewed, but failed to mention that most of the original witnesses had not been interviewed.(9)He also revealed that his inquiry team […]
[…] Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli used the crisis to buy the Khedive’s shares in the newly built Suez Canal. In 1876 Egypt was forced to accept a new financial regime, known as ‘Dual Control’. This put control of Egypt’s finances in the hands of British and the French personnel, although the majority were in […]
[…] more than describe and comment I want to try to shape debates, to move upstream in the process of how ideas bring about change.’ The chosen new arena for her talents was the congenial world of thinktankery Demos, no less, the home of the Third Way dreamed up by Geoff Mulgan (before […]
[…] political gossip; but at £29.50 for 200 pages? 1 See the review of his Thinking the Unthinkable in Lobster 28 p. 33. From Blitz to Blair: a new history of Britain since 1939 ed. Nick Tiratsoo Phoenix (Orion), London,1997, £7.99 pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, […]
[…] than the occasional generosity of its readers. Notes on Contributors Peter Dale Scott teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley. He has just finished a new book, Cocaine Politics. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales. He is the co-author of Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) and is currently […]
[…] the CIA and all forms of U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of other states. But the effect of these measures will be frustrated as long as new agencies – such as the DEA – are allowed to pick up the training and assassination tasks denied to CIA; as long as the U.S.-financed lobbies […]
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: […]
[…] contra effort. The details of this insanely complex affair now fill a 600-page volume called Compromised by John Cummings and Terry Reed, published by SPI books ( New York, 1994, $23.95) Briefly: Terry Reed functioned as an army intelligence officer during Vietnam, turning to civilian spookery in the late 70s. In 1982 he met […]
[…] the press, just as they may do today, for all I know, they made their fury felt.’ Angleton’s ghost A wonderful piece of disinformation appeared in a New York Times editorial (7 January ’90) speculating on what we might learn from the Soviet Union now that the Cold War is over. Under the heading […]
