[…] literature of recent years has begun to resemble the literature of parapolitics. Increasingly the story is of the activities of putative agents of state, the intelligence and security agencies, and alleged disinformation and smear campaigns. (On this see Jacques Vallee’s Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, London, Souvenir Press, 1992.) A recent re-examination of […]
Jim Mac Laughlin London: Pluto Press, 2001, £15.99/£45 Mac Laughlin’s book is a history of nation-building in Ireland. This overlaps with a study of Irish nationalism. The two things are not identical. Indeed, the tensions and differences between the two is one of his implicit themes. The book is not a rehash of various … Read more
[…] Diplomatic intercepts by GCHQ were also helpful to the US during the build-up to the 1972 Paris peace conference. President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, attached great importance to the mood of the North Vietnamese and the Hong Kong station’s information, which suggested that Hanoi was far from capitulating, led […]
[…] the government decide if the UIRA ceasefire was genuine’. It is said the Kelly was tipped off about the bug by someone in the Northern Ireland office. Security sources were said to be ‘very angry’ about the tip-off. We are to believe that someone in Kelly’s position didn’t assume his house was bugged? Didn’t […]
[…] about the direction Lobster has taken. When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing every available scrap of information on the British security and intelligence services: we had Reagan and Thatcher, a resurgent British imperialism on the coat-tails of America, and a repressive, authoritarian regime at home. Publicising what […]
[…] be a fairly routine investigation. We didn’t expect to find that there was much to the allegations of collusion, quite honestly. The claim that officers from the security forces had supplied Loyalist gunmen with the names and addresses of people they thought were terrorists in order to have them murdered seemed too fantastic to […]
[…] – Eugene Deloncle and a certain Filliol – were such enthusiastic collaborators that they were in contact with General Max Thomas, who headed the Gestapo and S.S. Security Service (S. D.) forces in France in 1941. In October of that year, those same leaders arranged for the bombing of synagogues in Paris on behalf […]
[…] Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA. He […]
[…] with FBI agents and other dirty tricksters, but Huey Newton was living in a luxury Oakland penthouse in 1971, overlooking Lake Merritt, and I doubt that ‘ security’ was the only reason. By 1978 I was living on the other side of the lake, and Newton was still considered politically correct as he returned […]
[…] Select Committee on Transport; LFI veteran Mike Gapes stays on as chair of Foreign Affairs, and who is that old radical lefty who is now chairing the Security and Intelligence Committee? Step forward one-time Hornsey College of Art rebel and comrade of the striking miners, Dr Kim Howells. Described by The Jewish Chronicle as […]
