[…] became, with others, a partner in Edsaco, while moving the administration of Berlusconi’s various offshore companies to Withers, the established law firm in which he became a new partner. As also recorded in this verdict, other Withers partners now began to take part in the administration of Berlusconi’s offshore companies. (2) This was not […]
[…] the Warren Commission report (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time to scan the Commission’s published report and documents for new pretexts for questioning, and there has been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission’s findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as […]
[…] and distance itself from Republican goals enabled a self-serving rabble-rouser like Ian Paisley to contribute to the biggest example of self-fulfilling prophecy in history. There is new material on the emergence of McKeague’s Shankill Defence Association from Paisley’s Ulster Protestant Volunteers.() Unfortunately, there is nothing on McKeague’s paedophile activities, e.g. at Kincora Boys […]
[…] this dilemma by retracting his pre-1987 claims about MI5 plots against Wilson. He began this in his The Spycatcher Affair:a Web of Deception, and continues in this new book. The Truth About Dirty Tricks also contains a staggeringly inaccurate chapter on the Colin Wallace Affair. After a life-time of recycling official ‘leaks’, Pincher was […]
[…] contents of the address book Korkala sent to Marie McCarthy (friend of his and Terpil in Beirut) from his cell before FBI agents spirited him back to New York. She says the book contains the names of top CIA and other intelligence officers in the Middle East and Europe. Obviously most of those named […]
[…] and detailed examination of current (Griffin) BNP ideology, Copsey tells us ‘the trained eye does not have to look too far to find evidence that Griffin’s “ new” BNP is not that different to the BNP of “old” ‘ (p. 170). He draws attention to two ‘ideal types’ on the far right: ‘revolutionary nationalist’ […]
[…] were connected to the drugs/guns traffic in the region. Also averting their eyes, she tells us, were the liberal media in the US, especially (of course) the New York Times. Herman and Brodhead, two critics of Ms Sterling’s earlier, Readers’ Digest version of the ‘Bulgarian Connection’, are just as critical of the same media […]
Susan. L. Carruthers Leicester University Press, London and New York, 1995 £45 hb, £16.99 pb. This is an important study of British psy-war activities, and the politics thereof, since the war. Almost all of this book was new to me, though I haven’t studied anti-British insurgencies. Originally a PhD thesis, happily, in Carruthers case, […]
[…] theft of the voting cards.(4) Resident Frederick Wright is 73 and of sound mind; he ‘nominated’ someone called Jonathan Ellwood. I asked Mr Wright if he k new Mr Ellwood. The answer was an immediate ‘no’. Two other residents nominated Mary Ellwood, who lives at the same address as Jonathan. Four residents at Hepworth […]
[…] an enigma: the fiery left wing Labour MP who became one of Mosley’s fascists, an unrepentant anti-Semite and war-time internee. How to explain this trajectory? Francis Beckett’s new biography is of particular interest because it is an attempt by the man’s son, a left wing journalist (New Statesman education correspondent) and historian, to understand […]
