[…] by MI6. Even if this is true the Observer’s staff list since the war under Astor contains a number people suspected of serving secretly in Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It would hardly be a surprise to discover at some point that MI6 had a hand in funding the Observer in the post-war years. The […]
[…] New Statesman of 27 September (3) there was a very interesting account by Observer journalist David Rose of his becoming an asset of the British and American secret states in 1992, wined and dined and given unattributible leads and information. It began with ‘C’, Sir Colin McColl, lunching with then Observer editor Donald Trelford, […]
[…] at Kincora Boys Home, his murky links with Unionist politicians and layers of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), via TARA, nor on his later role as a secret state asset. () At the same time the authors show how many contradictory forces were brought together in the early UDA many of which were […]
Responsibilities, old boy The Big Breach Richard Tomlinson Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2000, £9.99 I found it hard to ‘see’ this because so much of its contents have been published in the media. There have been some changes – names altered – since the newspaper versions; and I am told that the original hardback version […]
[…] Hungary. (He was forced to resign in 1947.) “Another was Louis Bloomfield, an American agent who now plays the role of a businessman from Canada (who) established secret ties in Rome with Deputies of the Christian Democrats and neo-Fascist parties.” This “information” travelled the world, and even Moscow became interested in the Garrison inquiry. […]
[…] had conducted since the war. She was unaware of the enormity of the program and the legacy of despair it had left behind. She ordered 32 million secret documents to be reviewed for their release to the public and pledged to compensate the victims. She thought she was alluding to about only 800 people, […]
[…] regime at home. Publicising what the British state most wanted kept in the cupboard seemed a good idea. But these days, dozens of books about our ‘ secret services’ later, the ‘Secret’ Intelligence Service flaunting its bureaucratic muscle in that shiny, new building on the Thames, we have intelligence stories everywhere. Mere collating of […]
[…] David Kelly C.M.G…. (London: HMSO, 2004) See for example: Raymond Whitaker, ‘Evidence reveals Blair’s true intention for war’, Independent on Sunday, 1 May 2005; David Hughes, ‘Premier’s secret council of war’, Daily Mail, 2 May 2005; Richard Norton-Taylor and Patrick Wintour, ‘Papers reveal commitment to war: Iraq secret documents indicate Blair support for military […]
[…] eliminated during the storming of the Iranian Embassy in May 1980 had no unfortunate side effects because the terrorists had no popular support. Similar ruthlessness in the secret war against the IRA, however, did have serious drawbacks precisely because they did have a popular constituency in Northern Ireland. One of the main concerns of […]
[…] his (unnamed) second book, presumably The Looking Glass War: ‘Critics and public alike rejected the novel, but this time the spies were cross. And since the British secret service controlled large sections of the press, just as they may do today, for all I know, they made their fury felt.’ Angleton’s ghost A wonderful […]
