[…] recent financial sources remain a mystery. Even so, even in the triangle Challen identifies as being at the heart of the British political system, the City, the secret state and the Conservative Party, there is quite a lot of information available Inevitably, the chapters on the pre-Thatcher years are thinner than those since she […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the case was only “solved” and Townley located, after Pinochet, under pressure from Carter and Chilean bankers, had begun to crack down on Townley’s employers, the Chilean secret police, DINA. Cf. John Dinges and Saul Landau, Assassination on Embassy Row (New York, Pantheon, 1980); Taylor Branch and Eugene M. Propper Labyrinth (New York, Viking, […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super secret agent; Casolaro wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little […]
[…] in that coup. Kahin’s innocence is understandable when he is describing his travels in the region in the 1950s: the CIA was still, more or less, a secret organisation; but a lot of information has been produced since then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend […]
Editorially Writing in mid-January… good news is the arrival of The Digger, apparently set fair to replace Private Eye as the major outlet – major above ground outlet – for British parapolitics. (Lobster, as one British academic said to me, is ‘underground’…). The new Kincora-Blunt trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of … Read more
[…] which has no equivalent in the UK. No. 10, for example contains this sequence of articles: a piece about Gerald Posner’s Case Closed; a piece called ‘ Secret Service Masers Kill and Make Whores’ about implants and mind control programmes of the US government, which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an […]
Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more
The Third Decade The Third Decade, “a journal of research on the John F. Kennedy assassination” keeps appearing with impressive, not to say stunning, frequency. 6 in a year so far, and that’s 26 plus pages per issue. With The Third Decade the Kennedy assassination researchers have finally got, as near as makes no difference, … Read more
