[…] 1983) that the Centre receives – “unofficially and in breach of Whitehall rules -copies of confidential government documents”. The Centre has a Defence Study Group with a secret and high-powered membership, and a group studying the direction and control of British foreign policy .Does anyone have anything on Natalia Brooke, Centre Secretary, whose grandfather […]
From Garrick Alder Re: John Newsinger’s ‘Orwell and the IRD in Lobster 38 The appearance since Lobster 45 of further details of Orwell’s dealings with the IRD has reminded me how very interested I was by Mr Newsinger’s admirable reappraisal of the Orwell/IRD incidents. Two things have struck me that seems to have escaped comment … Read more
[…] revived under that name’.(1) The second interpretation is defended by historians such as John Hope and D. S. Lewis. Hope investigates the links which existed between the secret services and the fascist groups. By examining the fortunes of fascists, such as W. E. D. Allen, and of members of MI5, including Maxwell Knight, he […]
[…] that I must be arrested ……’on principal’ ……To let Private Eye get away with publishing it would ….. ’cause jealousy’ in Fleet Street and thus injure MI5’s secret public relations. My informant urged me to go back to Ireland, while the going was still, possibly, good.’ (pp. 410/11) Hollis was acting in his usual […]
[…] latter relationship remained platonic. Clearly the sexual politics of the British governing elite in this period can do with further investigation. Mosley eventually married Diana Mitford in secret in Berlin in October 1936. Those present at the ceremony included Hitler and Goebbels. The secrecy attending this event has generally been put down to his […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] fantasies than fully realisable attempts to overthrow the existing regime and institute some form of republic. Students of the arcane arts of espionage, agents provocateurs and of secret policing will find much of interest in the book. However, somewhere in that dark and unknowable place between the original pitch for it, the author’s research […]
[…] who did have the muscle to police the non-communist world. Third, as the US developed global electronic surveillance systems which the British state could not match, our secret servants came to rely on US-generated intelligence. The fourth reason is that a large part of the City of London is now owned by American banks, […]
[…] is heard from the Lib Dems or Tories. In the case of the Bedford granny-farming scandal, not even the dubiously-defeated Lib Dem has voiced a complaint. The secret behind all this abuse is that the parties are all in it together. The silence from the opposition every time a rigger is caught out, is […]
