[…] similarly marginalised. Yet, as this book concludes, ‘calls are monitored, travel circumscribed, and torture is again being routinized (sic). All this is done in the name of security in the War on Terror.’ What was most worrying about the recent G20 protests in London was the way the police have been encouraged to distance […]
[…] No 6, as anyone who has attempted to transcribe 3 hours of conversation will appreciate). The edited conversation, ranging across the Vietnam war, the role of ‘national security intellectuals’ and, of course, the assassination of Kennedy, will be in No 7. To our knowledge this will be the first time Scott – in our […]
Giles Scott-Smith London: Routledge/PSA 2002, £55 This is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA-funded operation that ran for two decades after World War II of which Encounter magazine was the best-known British component. Giles Scott-Smith has added to the historical record well illuminated by Christopher … Read more
[…] about the direction Lobster has taken. When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing every available scrap of information on the British security and intelligence services: we had Reagan and Thatcher, a resurgent British imperialism on the coat-tails of America, and a repressive, authoritarian regime at home. Publicising what […]
[…] the President moved to reconsider the Huston Plan, army intelligence had given the entire print-out of its civilian surveillance computers to ISD (i.e. IEC in Mardian’s Internal Security Division). (45) In like vein the CIA’s new director, William Colby, as part of his reorientation of the CIA towards foreign targets, terminated, in 1974, the […]
[…] All these tales were complete nonsense and had been put about by Wilson’s enemies on the far right, which included some powerful figures in the intelligence and security establishment. It is now widely accepted that these groups had attempted to undermine the 1964-70 and 1974-76 Wilson governments,() that they failed, and that in a […]
[…] replied in the issue of 22 October, claimed to be bored with O’Hara (after smearing him for nearly a year!), but admitted he had dealings with the security services (unspecified). October also saw Alexander Baron’s curiously titled Editors! Are You Being Fed A Load Of Bullshit? You Are If You Subscribe to Searchlight: A […]
[…] Canary Wharf. Yet long before the credit crunch, says Augar, there were dissident voices. Labour’s natural supporters, especially in the trade unions, were protesting about the in security and inequalities resulting from the growing power of private equity and the tax breaks for non-doms, a group Augar says accounted for half of the increase […]
The Imperial War Museum book of Modern Warfare: British and Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000 Edited by Major General Julian Thompson London: Pan Books, 2003, £8.99 This is the paperback edition of the book published by Sidgwick and Jackson a year ago. It contains 15 essays on conflicts that have involved British armed forces … Read more
[…] ()there was an article, ‘War Stories’ by Carne Ross, who was, in his own words, ‘the British “expert” on Iraq for the UK delegation to the UN Security Council responsible for policy on both weapons inspections and sanctions against Iraq’ from 1998 to 2002. His account of the events leading up to war, with […]
