[…] insurance companies would not want the building whose insurance they are carrying damaged by the building next door falling on it; nor why this has been kept secret, if true. Who would want to work in a building wired for demolition? A speech by CP’s instigator, Julia Middleton is at It illustrates the CP […]
[…] files available under the Freedom of Information Act in the US on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, (see, for example, Sunday Times 31 March 1985), and the top secret State Department decimal file for Albania 1948/9 is available for all to see in the National Archives. Philby was definitely responsible for blowing some of the […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] became the 4th Duke of Westminster in 1963, as well as with Joe. Not even when Diana Petrie wrote a book about her father in 1975, The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley, did the secret about Sally come out. Joe Ackerley took credit for having introduced the policeman, Bob Buckingham, to E.M. Forster who […]
[…] there is good circumstantial evidence he knew the identity of the caller – John Lewis, a fellow Labour MP. See Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril’s Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987), pp. 141-2. And, further, David Thurlow’s Profumo: The Hate Factor (London: Robert Hale, 1992), pp. 92-3. Michael […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Hungary. (He was forced to resign in 1947.) “Another was Louis Bloomfield, an American agent who now plays the role of a businessman from Canada (who) established secret ties in Rome with Deputies of the Christian Democrats and neo-Fascist parties.” This “information” travelled the world, and even Moscow became interested in the Garrison inquiry. […]
[…] 3XX. Subs for two issues in the UK, £5.00. In Europe add 15% to prices; elsewhere add 20%. IMOs, sterling cheques or US dollars only, please. The Secret Team David Guyatt points out that the 1997 third edition of Fletcher Prouty’s classic 1973 book about the CIA, The Secret Team, is now available in […]
[…] 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 […]
