[…] merely an account of a psychologist spectating on her own break-down. But this is strikingly similar to the experience of Girard. (And those who have read Open Secret, Tony Collins’ account of the strange deaths of a number of British scientists, will hear in this certain obvious resonances with some of the “suicides’ in […]
[…] enough to have been in the way of something – accidental victims of some experiment. It says a great deal about this benighted country, and the sheer stupidity of so many of its secret servants that rather than just admit this, apologise, and offer restitution, the British state went into full-scale cover-up and harassment mode.
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[…] (So what would it take?) In 1983 when Lobster began, one of the ideas behind it was the suspicion that the spooks were a kind of ‘ secret government’. The invasion of Iraq demonstrated very clearly that political power in the US and UK resides in the little groups around the prime minister and […]
[…] much of this programme was known about by the politicians who were nominally in charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the continuing reevaluation of the Cold War; and what with the […]
[…] strategy of tension period when Israel was battling with Italy for the ear of the US in the Mediterranean and Ledeen became involved with SISMI, the Italian secret service. From Italy, Ledeen moved back to Washington where, during his CSIS spell, he played an important role in the so-called Billygate incident, when the brother […]
[…] year in which, according to Rose, ‘Class War played a leading role’.(6) Without doubt, NF members did turn up on ‘Stop the City’ activities, and made no secret of the fact.(7) However, they did not make themselves known at the time, and in any event the variety of anarchist organising the events was of […]
[…] powerful Japanese task force comprising six of their carriers, two battleships and a number of other units to include tankers and cruisers, has sailed yesterday from a secret base in the northern Japanese islands. Roosevelt We both knew this was coming. There are also reports in my hands about a force of some size […]
[…] 14 Nil. 15 One article. 16 Two articles 17 One and a bit articles. 18 Part of the cover image. Produced text of Who’s Who of British Secret State. 19 Three articles and cover image. 20 Nil. 21 Nil. 22 Book review, article, list of spooks. 23 Two articles. 24 Nil. Of the 13 […]
[…] book is centrally about the collusion between the loyalist paramilitaries and the British state. Except that ‘collusion’ isn’t really the right word. Yes there was a ‘fraudulent secret understanding between ostensible opponents’, as the Oxford Pocket defines collusion; but this was more than an ‘understanding’. To all intents and purposes the Army and the […]
