[…] 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 […]
In March of this year, there was a major scandal over party funding in the United Kingdom. To some of us, this was an accident waiting to happen. In a country with many millions of voters who are allowed to exercise that vote only once every four or five years, relatively small numbers of people … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] wrong by security or intelligence officials. (See for example ‘MPs urge spies curb’ in The Guardian, 3 November 1998 and ‘Investigator to get wide powers to quiz secret service’, The Sunday Telegraph 14 February 1999.) This ‘special investigator’ is, of course, another piece of Whitehall bullshit which will not satisfy the Intelligence and Security […]
[…] Op. cit. 9 ‘Report of the Inspection of MKULTRA/TSD’, July 26 1963 The Geschickter Fund for Medical Research served as the principal cut-out source for the CIA’s secret funding of numerous MKULTRA projects. Additionally, CIA tried to enlist the Atomic Energy Commission to co-fund the project by appealing to its interest in Geschickter’s radiation […]
[…] committee investigated the covert side of US foreign policy and discovered a number of scandalous secrets, some of which were leaked to the public, while others remained secret. In an interview Congressman Pike stated that any member of Congress could see the entire report if he agreed not to reveal anything that was in […]
[…] with the media). There is also a perceptible dis-ease engendered in British journalists by the simple fact that he is a willing informant from inside the British secret state. There hasn’t been one before, least not of Wallace’s significance. I suspect they can’t quite believe its real. This anxiety occasionally surfaces in public. Take […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] See PRO PREM 13/261, report of a meeting between the Prime Minister and the Governor of the Bank of England, 24 November 1964. PRO PREM 13/261 ‘Top Secret Annex’ to minutes of a Ministerial meeting at Chequers of 21 November 1964. Donald MacDougall, Don and Mandarin: memoirs of an economist (London: John Murray, 1987), […]
