[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] senior Special Branch officer? I believe him but others might be more sceptical. More to the point, saints are somewhat thin on the ground inside the British secret state. An Ulster Protestant from County Tyrone, Phoenix had served in the Parachute Regiment before joining the RUC in 1970. He was a hard man. On […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 < […]
[…] Mitrokhin to supplement his MI6 pension. The spooks’ chosen ghost-writer, Christopher Andrew, is a disingenuous creep who has sold out his academic integrity to slavishly toe the secret state’s party line in return for celebrity and book sales. (He is also vain and insufferably smug — he smirks, as someone once remarked, not like […]
[…] 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), […]
[…] Fiji, spreading a trail of disinformation about Libyan activity in the Pacific. His visit to Australia probably prompted Foreign Minister Bill Hayden to make a highly publicised “secret” dash, a few days later, across the Tasman to talk with David Lange about Libya, within the high-security confines of Ohakea airbase. After Walters’ visit to […]
