[…] were not named. George pleaded not guilty at Birmingham Crown Court in March and a further hearing was scheduled for April 2004. Since then, silence. Over in New Zealand, former naval commander Rob Green (Hilda Murrell’s nephew) has his own views on Andrew George’s arrest. According to The New Zealand Herald he believes George […]
[…] The sight of the Rolling Stones arriving in China to perform a government-approved selection of songs coincided with my reading a chapter of Stewart Lansley’s fine new book entitled ‘Only little people pay taxes’. He recounts Bianca Jagger’s 1979 divorce revelation that her former husband was obsessed with avoiding paying taxes. ‘Throughout our […]
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus […]
[…] scripts. All your favourites are here: MKUltra and Delta; the CIA’s drug programmes; Ewan Cameron’s ‘psychic driving’ and reprogramming experiments in Canada – all reworked with some new material. For British readers there is new information on William Sargant, author of the 1957 landmark book, Battle for the Mind. Streatfield shows that Sargant was […]
[…] think of one. Some of this material was presented in greater detail in Pepper’s first book on the case, Orders to Kill (reviewed in Lobster 32). This new account briefly reruns that and adds much new information and an account of the successful civil trial Pepper brought against one of the conspirators after a […]
[…] of the British public’s character, irrespective of where the citizen may have been born or tenets of upbringing, and an example of what could have been a new dominion: moral secular authority that did not segmentalise, over the vast unconquered empire of a zillion minds. All this potential was trashed when Prime Minister Blair, […]
[…] guerilla military resistance to the Castro-led socialist government. These forces would also mount terrorist military attacks against the economic infra-structure of Cuba, making it difficult for the new revolutionary government to organize and operate the economy. 70.3. With this covert NSC-CIA program underway in early 1960, then Vice President Richard M. Nixon secretly “reached […]
[…] from early on. It was insufficiently remarked upon in the various Callaghan obituaries. This first came to attention in November 1960 during the election to chose a new deputy leader for the Labour Party. Brown was highly thought of. A bright man with impeccable working class credentials and good trade union connections, he had […]
[…] Kitson was concerned there was a serious danger of revolutionary disturbance in Britain in the foreseeable future. To meet this challenge the army needed to develop a new preemptive strategy. The traditional role of providing support for the civil authorities, ie. putting troops on the streets when the police had lost control, was no […]
[…] work; and it’s big: 395 pages of text, another 100 pages of notes and sources and a decent index. I imagine that most of it will be new to most Lobster readers, as it was to me. There is a section early on covering BOSS in Britain in the 1960s and 70s, which was […]
