[…] and the Consequences for European-North American Relations.” It was all to do with oil and recycling petro-dollars and the impact on the Balance of Payments and Western Security etc. Attached is a page from the Bilderberg minutes for May 73 showing a discussion about the price oil should be. You’ll see that there is […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] must be faced. For some time we have seen the hope of realizing any true or lasting change to the structure and operational capabilities of the national security agencies wither away until the prospects have all but faded from view…’ JFK sources Two significant articles on the Kennedy assassination appeared in Probe. ‘Harvey and […]
Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, … Read more
[…] ‘briefings’ put out by IRD in the 1970s and is proof that while IRD may have officially closed, its functions continue in other guises. Canadian Association For Security And Intelligence Studies Newsletter Issue 10 arrived, chock full of news and details of books recent and forthcoming in the intelligence field. It includes a couple […]
[…] are still involved in squalid, sectarian thuggery in Belfast. Inevitably, general interest in Crawford’s book will centre on its treatment of collusion between the Loyalist para-militaries and security forces, but as an ethnographer who studies terrorists as ‘ordinary people driven beyond normal boundaries’, Crawford is more concerned with the culture of collusion than with […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] areas. A few examples: on page 7 he refers to a paper which, in turn, refers to the existence of a DIA psychic centre in the National Security Agency (NSA); but he fails give details of the paper. On page 18 Rifat makes extensive references to hypnosis, drugs, meditation, ELF and a host of […]
[…] washing experiments under MK Ultra are suing the US government. There is a suggestion that the UK government was involved in similar operations. Part of the surviving CIA documentation on MK Ultra (most was destroyed on Helms’ orders) reads: “allied governments where the security services has people under its control.” New Scientist 2nd Feb. 1984
John Pilger Vintage Books, London,1998, £8.99 pb As one of the few serious radicals in this country to whom the mass media pay any attention, Pilger is important. This is a collection of essays, a few already published but most written for this book. We are back in what is recognisably Pilgerland: the corruptions of … Read more
