[…] of heinous deeds. (22) Meanwhile, SIS and MI5 launch a campaign to attract those from various ethnic groups living in Britain to sign up to Her Majesty’s secret services…..(23) Spook PR and War with Iraq Nowhere has Whitehall’s Cold War (and macho) PR-machine been more in evidence than in its handling of Iraq. Take, […]
[…] been allowed to participate in IRA meetings…’ Ken Livingstone’s memory Ken Livingstone MP revisited this area in his column in The Independent on 21 May. Titled ‘The secret conspiracy to destroy peace in Ireland’, this was Ken revisiting the days in 1987 when he made his maiden speech in the Commons based on the […]
The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, Oakland … Read more
[…] the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. Arthur Martin (Obituary, Guardian 2 February 1996). One of MI5’s ‘mole hunters’, ally of Peter Wright Christopher Mayhew The long obituary in the Daily Telegraph […]
From Garrick Alder Re: John Newsinger’s ‘Orwell and the IRD in Lobster 38 The appearance since Lobster 45 of further details of Orwell’s dealings with the IRD has reminded me how very interested I was by Mr Newsinger’s admirable reappraisal of the Orwell/IRD incidents. Two things have struck me that seems to have escaped comment … Read more
[…] who did have the muscle to police the non-communist world. Third, as the US developed global electronic surveillance systems which the British state could not match, our secret servants came to rely on US-generated intelligence. The fourth reason is that a large part of the City of London is now owned by American banks, […]
[…] at Central TV, in particular, have stayed on in their jobs after fronting stories on this not only completely false but so obviously sources back to the secret state.’ Ian Pollard, researcher for the Channel 4 documentary,’The Arthur Legend’, which examined the generation of these smears, wrote to correct me. The Mirror and Cook […]
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[…] – operating much more clearly than Carroll Quigley managed with his much wider focus. The sewer and the sewage The Sunday Times has been one of the secret state’s major disinformation tools for over a decade now – and maybe longer; I haven’t looked any further back. In my ‘Miscellaneous cuttings’ file I noticed […]
Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand … Read more
