[…] which it means consumerism. 13 See ‘An increasing number of diplomats in British embassies are employees of commercial companies….. the Foreign Office for months battled to keep secret the posting of these private enterprise diplomats…..’ The Guardian 5 October 2002. 14 The Guardian 2 April 2003 15 The Observer 20 April 2003 16 The […]
[…] are due to begin declining in 1987. When the decline gets underway the economic consequences for this country are going to be horrendous. This is hardly a secret. Some economic commentators (Wynne Godley, William Keegan), have been warning about it for at least 5 years. The Treasury computer model of the British economy will […]
[…] pervert. But are they of any interest other than the prurient? Yes, indeed. First of all, there is what they don’t reveal about Wyatt’s connection with the secret state and dirty tricks (he had been an important Information Research Department conduit). Much more important is what they do reveal about how contemporary Britain is […]
[…] the Mountbatten incident but only on the basis of Cecil King’s diaries. There is no reference to the work of Dorril and Ramsay (Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, London 1991), of David Leigh (The Wilson Plot, London 1988), or of Paul Foot (Who Framed Colin Wallace?, London 1988). Smear! might have appeared too […]
[…] biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ Kennedy assassination initiates will glimpse […]
[…] Standard and Poor’s Register 1982 See Who Owns Whom and Extel Fairey manufactures bridges and trackways. In 1934 the Union of Democratic Control published a booklet The Secret International which described Fairey as “the most important firm manufacturing military aeroplanes”, but the document named Vickers as the most important arms firm of the day. […]
[…] by the British Army. (And thus his other claims about intelligence operations in Northern Ireland should not be taken seriously…..) In 1990, in a piece called ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ in the Spectator (24 March 1990) Ware returned to Wallace and parachuting, reiterating his 1987 claims that Wallace had either lied or […]
[…] Nasiri, Zahedi, the three unit commanders, two guard officers, a large number of other military personnel, were all aware, and at the same time apprehensive. Consequently, the secret was out, causing gossip and the failure of the plan. The assigned time – 10 pm – was not suitable. Although there was no other alternative […]
[…] (and maybe had his phone tapped for the attempt). In an article in Times Higher Educational Supplement (24 April 1987) he wonders: “Does Britain really have a secret conspiratorial history which nobody is to be allowed to get wind of? The scraps of intelligence that have got through the fence suggest that it may […]
See note(1) By some standards, the loss of 269 souls aboard Korean Air Lines flight 007 on August 31, 1983, was a modest disaster. The Titanic, for example, claimed 1503 lives; the Lusitania 1198. But historians may come to believe that the political implications of the downing of the civilian 747 airliner by a Soviet … Read more
