[…] of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made at an intimate little social gathering in the basement restaurant of the Wilner […]
[…] that really was unbelievable and incredible. Those ‘senior ministers’ certainly did not know what was going on in the outside world because there was noting at all new in the claim that British Intelligence could monitor Communist votes in British general elections. The British Communist newspaper The Morning Star had repeatedly mentioned this very […]
[…] had sent a memo to Milner arguing the case for a Jewish national home in Palestine on strategic grounds. (In addressing himself to Milner, Samuel clearly k new who was pulling the strings in British imperial policy at the time). In March 1917, Milners semi-secret Round Table organisation held a moot (or congress) to […]
Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005, h/b, $33.00 There is 900 pages of this, in the first 250 or so of which the authors demonstrate that there was a Kennedy brothers plan to create an internal coup in Cuba, which was set to go on 1 December 1963. […]
[…] we both had concerns about John Ware. He had written articles or produced TV documentaries about subjects of which we both had some knowledge which we k new were wrong, but for which he had never had to apologise or make a public correction. In the first section I return to the Colin Wallace […]
[…] in his introduction, the Labour Party and its politicians have been the subject of much greater and more critical exposure – as one would expect of anything new. As a consequence, it has appeared as if Labour was more often the party beset by turmoil and internecine warfare. Three major Conservative themes emerge from […]
The first of three essays in this issue are about New Labour and its origins. I put mine first because of its general, context-setting nature. The subsequent essays, on the Successor Generation and the operations in the British Unions, deepen and thicken the section towards the end of the opening essay which discusses New […]
[…] view for long. Academics, whether they believe him or not, will never take the book seriously because there is so little documentation. Yet as a source of new hypotheses on the postwar years it must be without precedent in this country. Verrier has quietly eased the lids on a great many cans of worms. […]
[…] the harsh anti-Jewish atmosphere in the post-war years prompts a revaluation of the 1930s and Mosley’s movement in particular. It had been suggested that there was nothing new about Mosley’s appeal. The history of ‘anti-alienism’ reinforces this view; political parties and the state had already pre-empted much of his programme and enough of his […]
Olivier Schmidt Atlanta (USA): Clarity Press, 2005, $14.95, p/b www.bookmasters.com/clarity/currenttitles.htm Here’s a new name to me, the publisher Clarity; and a familiar one, Olivier Schmidt. In the 1980s Schmidt was producing a very good newsletter in Paris, Intelligence and Parapolitics. This got expensive, professionalised and eventually went on-line for subscribers as Intelligence.(1) This […]
