Wensley Clarkson Blake Publishing, London 1998, £16.99 Remember Jonathan Moyle, the ex-RAF officer, editor of Defence Helicopter World, who was found dead, hanging in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Chile in 1990? This is about him – and about his death. It is done in the most irritating manner possible, written as a […]
[…] Department to be purely administrative in function and would only have thought about any possible political repercussions if Legg had held a similar position at, say, the MOD or the Foreign Office. After fully investigating me, an investigation of which I was unaware at the time, the Security Service, with a little help from […]
[…] that is not of its own making, with its own ‘stab in the back’ legend. British officers were certainly open about their situation before withdrawal despite desperate MoD attempts to restrict their communications with the outside world. The view of the military in Southern Iraq was that the Americans would now fare no better: […]
[…] an engineering firm facing criminal charges as part of an international black market in stolen British naval parts. (Observer 28 October 1984), and an army major in MOD intelligence (plus his wife and 2 kids).(Sunday Telegraph 2 September 1984) The newsagency, Reuters, is so widely assumed to be a routine cover for British intelligence […]
[…] one million pounds from defence contractors and others in exchange for steering government contracts their way and other favours (The Times, 4 March 2006). Similarly, senior British MOD civil servant Michael Hale was jailed for two years in April this year for accepting bribes from an American company (Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2007). The […]
[…] are being denied by the British and American military establishments.See, for example, Michael Clarke, ‘Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan: Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox’ at and Leuren Moret, ‘Depleted Uranium is WMD’ at . There must be special section of Hell reserved for the lawyers who work for the MOD and US Army.
[…] unremitting hostility to the European Union and his love of Bob Marley’s music. But nearly a decade ago he was the intermediary between Fred Holroyd and the MOD who came with an offer of money if Fred gave up on Colin Wallace. Then he was a deniable intermediary between Libya and the Foreign Office. […]
[…] in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified lobbying of MPs, but a Lord Levy LFI fundraiser at the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall […]
[…] alleges CIA getting their information (re above) from Ministry of Defence. Guardian 14th April In Sunday Times piece (above) link said to be ‘US liaison staff at MOD’. Castro Enteritis Mike Osbourne in Undercurrents Feb/March 1984 Valuable 3pp summary of US (mainly CIA) attempts to wreak eco-war on Cuba’s crops, animals, weather, people. Undercurrents […]
[…] to ‘a small undercover SAS team stationed at Castledillon in the mid 1970s’. One interpretation of these shifting accounts, all sourced directly or indirectly back to the MOD, is that the Ministry is inching up on the truth – i.e. Fred Holroyd’s position – but doing it slowly in the hope that no-one will […]
