[…] increase their monitoring capability to eavesdrop on an unprecedented spectrum of personal and business communications. This activity has been all but ignored by the UK Parliament. When Labour MPs raised questions about the activities of the NSA, the Government invoked secrecy rules. It has been the same for 40 years. Notes This is an […]
[…] the book is not terribly interesting. Part of it is Mayhew’s memories of his struggle with the CP front groups – the friendship societies – in the 1950s, and the rest is fragmented memories of his increasing dissatisfaction with the Labour Party and his eventual defection to the Liberal Party and thence into the SDP.
British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 … Read more
[…] the broadcasting regulations – yet another falsehood.’ I have no sympathy for Robin Cook who has turned out to be at least as useless as any other Labour Minister, but readers of this column may remember that in issue 36 I described how Pilger had sent me a long letter and demanded I publish […]
[…] States and Canada. Within this framework, on average about one-third are from the government sector and the remaining two-thirds from a variety of fields including finance, industry, labour, education and the media. Participants are solely invited for their knowledge, experience and standing and with reference to the topics on the agenda. All participants attend […]
[…] the Cold War. Angleton became very important within the CIA. Not only head of counter-intelligence, but also CIA liaison with the Israelis and the FBI; he ran labour operations in Europe with Jay Lovestone; took responsibility for the surveillance of the American opposition to the Vietnam War; and, finally and fatally for his career, […]
[…] second is the extracts from the 1974 diary of Peter Cadogan which describe his contacts with G.K. Young during the period when Young was machinating against the Labour Government with his Unison Committee for Action. PO Box 3069, London SW9 8LU; single issues (including postage) U.K. 1.60; U.S. $4.00, Europe 2.00. Undercover, the British […]
[…] noise ratio is pretty low at the moment. Peter E. Newell (p. 12) has contributed an important essay on the hitherto almost entirely unknown Cold War CIA labour front, the Confederation of Free Trade Unionists in Exile. Tom Easton’s review essay (p. 17) on the history of the SDP which follows, is another important […]
[…] Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: “This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not be put off any longer…Diana’s relationship with Dodi Fayed and her role in public […]
[…] situation. In the final chapter there are also policy alternatives to the present shambles which are not a million miles away from the economic nationalism of the Labour left of the 1970s. Some form of economic nationalism, dressed up as ‘green’ economics or not, is the only viable alternative that I can see. But […]
