[…] large day-to-day diaries from the early sixties to the seventies were stolen. Recently Hod claims to have given her address books to the members of an undisclosed Secret Service department. Unfortunately I have been unable to track down Eddowes – if he is still alive. One can see now from where he received his […]
[…] period since the fall of the Berlin Wall. A great deal of this is new: Shayler is, as the authors say, the most important whistle-blower from the secret Whitehall world. His account is unprecedented in its scope and detail. This is also the best extant exposition of what we might call the politics of […]
[…] recent financial sources remain a mystery. Even so, even in the triangle Challen identifies as being at the heart of the British political system, the City, the secret state and the Conservative Party, there is quite a lot of information available Inevitably, the chapters on the pre-Thatcher years are thinner than those since she […]
[…] and after a tour of duty in Europe, returned to South Vietnam in 1954 as an aide to the above-mentioned Ed Lansdale, to help organize the CIA’s secret anti-communist forces in North Vietnam. As a measure of his knack for deceit and deception, it is worth noting that one of Conein’s favorite ‘dirty tricks’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] on the British government to send the SAS into Dundalk and hunt down dissident republicans by deadly force. As Irish Home Affairs Minister Brian Cowan was in secret talks with dissident republicans at the time and the Garda Siochana were prevented from dealing with dissident republicans appropriately, Johnny McLaughlin was right. He was nonetheless […]
[…] had conducted since the war. She was unaware of the enormity of the program and the legacy of despair it had left behind. She ordered 32 million secret documents to be reviewed for their release to the public and pledged to compensate the victims. She thought she was alluding to about only 800 people, […]
[…] he helped set up and European magazines which followed its example, the French Intelligence and Parapolitics (later Intelligence) and the German Geheim and its English-language version, Top Secret. This report portrays them all as part of Soviet disinformation strategies. If this was true of Geheim/Top Secret, I don’t think it true of Intelligence. Lobster […]
[…] Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ After reading this I thought: sure, he is innocent and I’m Santa Claus! But my interest in this story grew because my house in […]
[…] of Dave Spart? RR: You keep trying to patronise me and it always misses. The reference to Dave Spart simply tells me you have never read Lobster. Secret servants Red faces at NATO where the official NATO Website carried for two months an English translation of an article, which had originally appeared in Croatia, […]
