[…] revived under that name’.(1) The second interpretation is defended by historians such as John Hope and D. S. Lewis. Hope investigates the links which existed between the secret services and the fascist groups. By examining the fortunes of fascists, such as W. E. D. Allen, and of members of MI5, including Maxwell Knight, he […]
[…] you where it is . Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; and the National Criminal […]
[…] fantasies than fully realisable attempts to overthrow the existing regime and institute some form of republic. Students of the arcane arts of espionage, agents provocateurs and of secret policing will find much of interest in the book. However, somewhere in that dark and unknowable place between the original pitch for it, the author’s research […]
Many thanks, as always, to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Comments and contributions welcome. My email is ‘War on Terrorism’: Repercussions of 11 Sept. 2001 The Sept 11 2001 attacks on the US and subsequent ‘war against terrorism’ have provided law enforcement/intelligence agencies with an opportunity to push for sweeping new powers, plus fast-tracking of … Read more
[…] formulation and the techniques used to communicate ideas and mobilise mass action in support of those ideas. Above all, we need get inside the mind of the secret state, to start thinking a bit harder about why it behaves as it does domestically and internationally. What it thinks as a group is intimately […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] should be investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee. (c) the training, equipping and rewarding of anti-government elements in the police and military who made little or no secret of their intentions. In particular the Thai Border Patrol Police, now trained and equipped by the DEA in place of the CIA, were the principal murders […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] very similar to the anti-hero found in many Graham Greene novels, or a German George Smiley. It is also recorded that he was ‘linked’ to various ‘ secret societies’ that were banned in the Third Reich but prominent in Austria, Hungary, Lithuania and Latvia. They presumably formed part of the Catholic lobbying groups, Intermarium, […]
[…] Israel through Harari’s network. Harari’s main contact in the US is a figure often mentioned in the Contra investigations, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, was the Reagan administration’s prime channel […]
