[…] given to the military during the massacres in 1965 which left perhaps 250,000 dead. Somehow Kadane had persuaded a senior CIA agent in Indonesia and his diplomatic boss at the time to talk, on the record. The story was run, briefly, in the British serious press. A couple of months later Peter Dale Scott […]
[…] although the ‘spin’ is homage to the baby, its real purpose is to flatter ‘ordinary’ people. (A bit like President Bush saying ‘the American people are the boss’.) It is one of the best examples of ‘fusion’ there is rich/poor/animals/the heavens united in reverence not least because the ‘real’ status quo are […]
Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay ‘The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch … Read more
Notes From the Borderland Larry O’Hara now has his own journal, Notes from the Borderland, the first issue of which appeared in November last year. Like his previous pamphlets, this is full of fascinating information on the far right – the guts of the lead article on a charity scam being run in the UK … Read more
[…] Charles Ellis. In 1963 Charles Ellis wrote to Sir William Stephenson (84) to tell him that he had been recommended to a new organization by his former boss at MI6, Sir Stewart Menzies. ‘I am kept busy with this INTERDOC organization. And together with other chaps, I have formed a working committee which is […]
[…] positioned in the cells of that group that we could prevent actions because of the credibility of our source.’ This is reminiscent of the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is […]
[…] Unrelated happenings include sudden death (Dr David Kelly); surprise resignation (SIS Director, Africa and Middle East, Mark Allen, because he could not get on with his new boss); (17)interference in the career of a non-spook diplomat (Britain’s former Ambassador to Uzbekistan); imprisonment (Simon Mann); and the suspension of senior personnel at Customs and Excise […]
[…] part of the Police Service. My gut feeling is that there exists almost a taboo against pressing home the need for continued Special Branch scrutiny or accountability. BOSS and our own spook services dropped a real clanger that truly rebounded at least on the Criminal Injustice System when Peter Hain was fingered for a […]
[…] is what official sources and investigations, and well-heeled publishers and producers, threaten to give us. In the beginning was the mob Back in 1936, Lucky Luciano, the boss of Mafia drug and prostitution rackets in New York City, was finally convicted as a result of Thomas Dewey’s prosecution, and sentenced to thirty to fifty […]
Tell me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq ed. David Millar London: Pluto, 2003, £12.99, p/back One of the downsides of appearing every six months is that occasionally books arrive just too late for the issue in which they should appear and by the time the next issue appears they … Read more
