[…] 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 […]
[…] with our very own Baroness Cox (she of Campaign for a Free Britain) in Toronto. Tugwell spoke on the ‘connections between the “peace” movement, defence and national security and the educational system in Canada’. (Phoenix (Toronto) April 1987) One of the things Tugwell presumably won’t discuss in his book is his support for apartheid […]
[…] 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 […]
Part 1, 1974-83 See also: Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction This essay does not set out to be a comprehensive history of fascism in this period but rather to … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] of our ANZUS allies, particularly the British. Visitation by allied vessels is perfectly consistent with our obligations as a sovereign nation that has voluntarily entered into mutual security agreements to protect fundamental interests. The provision of necessary repair facilities is an implicit obligation under these agreements. Regarding the use of Australian repair facilities, further […]
[…] CSCW, Oslo, 26 May 2004. Michael Hershman was the co-founder of Transparency International and the chair of Decision Strategies/Fairfax International, now one of the biggest private investigation, security and business intelligence companies in the US. According to his biography he ‘began his career in intelligence and investigations in Europe during the late 1960’s as […]
[…] vigorously fight his conviction. We believe he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the British MOD, Crown Prosecution Service and Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ […]
[…] admits ‘co-operating’ with Reinhard Gehlen”. Gehlen died in 1979. The dubious assertions concern the alleged existence and activities of a body in the U.S. called Defence Industries Security Command (DISC) and its alleged Swiss subsidiary, Permindex. Manzione links them both to the assassinations of Robert and John Kennedy, when, as far as I know, […]
[…] and Related Activities) and SIS, were completely unable to stop a few guys with Stanley knives flying jet planes into the World Trade Centre? How have the security and intelligence forces managed to repackage themselves in the ‘new world’ of post-Cold War era of globalisation and cultural-religious conflict? And who is benefiting from this […]
