[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] conclusion that there was a right-wing conspiracy which had hoodwinked the entire nation….’ There has been an increase of interest in the state in general and the secret state in particular in the 1980s in Britain, but the author is simply wrong to attribute this to the arrival of the Tory Party in 1979. […]
[…] the rest of the Party. There is interesting (but unsourced) new material on the link-man with Moscow, Reuben Falber, which shows him taking charge of the Party’s secret money in the 1930s when he created the hitherto secret Commercial Branch, ‘a group of about fifty businessmen, mostly Jewish, who joined the Party in the […]
[…] by a plane.() Spook histories Keith Jeffery, Professor of British History at Queen’s University Belfast, has been signed up to write the first official history of the Secret Intelligence Service. ‘I feel like a child in a sweetie shop. I have been given complete access to all of the relevant secret files for the […]
[…] think the contents of the letter to be worthy of concealment. In any case, if you think what you have to communicate is so important or so secret, it shouldn’t be sent by letter at all. An oldie but a goodie After the IRA shot dead a British soldier with a single shot, Independent […]
[…] a CIA agent. EYE SPY! reports that, ‘ironically, the camera that recorded was one of his own’: there is no speculation as to how the spymaster’s super- secret videotapes reached the press, no reference to Fujimori’s opposition to the USA’s Plan Colombia as a factor in his sudden downfall. In other words, the stuff […]
[…] Commission Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin (3), but nobody on the Commission has owned up to seeing it. The potentially explosive material contained in the memo was secret for 12 years, and even now the full text has not been released. Curiously, support for the memo’s claims came in an article written by the […]
[…] Vialls. Joe Who? Joe Vialls was the subject of the postscript to Tony Collins’ book on the mysterious deaths of scientists in the British military sector, Open Secret (Sphere, London 1990). Vialls, a former petroleum engineer, had been the victim of some kind of mind control programme. He abandoned his career and holed-up in […]
