[…] No 6, as anyone who has attempted to transcribe 3 hours of conversation will appreciate). The edited conversation, ranging across the Vietnam war, the role of ‘national security intellectuals’ and, of course, the assassination of Kennedy, will be in No 7. To our knowledge this will be the first time Scott – in our […]
Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more
[…] candidate put up to enable a Thatcher victory?’ Well, now…… It’s a funny old world…. …when the Director of Public Prosecutions attacks ‘the relentless pressure of a security state’ and describes the government’s response to the terrorism threat as ‘mediaeval delusions’; (3) and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 […]
[…] traditional boundaries and areas of responsibilities, with access to classified and unrestricted information…’ Sebestyen Gorka and Richard Sullivan, ‘Biological toxins: A bioweapon threat in the 21st century’, Security Dialogue, 33 (2) (June 2002), pp 141-156. The Cold War The Congress of Cultural Freedom’s ‘The Future of Freedom’ Conference held in Milan in 1955 is […]
[…] career of Noel Pemberton-Billing (1881-1948). Substantial original research has been carried out to bolster the key finding in the text: Pemberton-Billing was used in 1917/18 by the security services and the ultra-right (of which he was a keen member) to smear and damage a number of mainstream politicians, mainly the Asquith Liberals, who were […]
[…] conversation with the author, October 1996. Advisory Committee on Human radiation Experiment , CIA record number CIA-071095-A. Dr. James H. Huddleson to Chief, Technical Branch, Office of Security, ‘Conference with Dr. Webb Haymaker’, November 4 1953. Op. cit. 17. Church Committee Report, Book 1, p. 395, states that one of the three principal functions […]
[…] other ‘squires’, the Dorset forester, farmer and folk-dancer Rolf Gardiner, and the East Kent landowner Lord Northbourne. Gardiner’s sympathies for Germany have been well documented; the British security services were so wary of him that he was denied access to post-war Germany for some years. His defenders claim that he was a naïve romantic […]
[…] MMU appear to be Julian Lewis and the ubiquitous Lord Chalfont (The Independent November 11 1986). Lewis, one of the founders of the Coalition for Peace Through Security, is a member of something called Policy Research Associates, with Chalfont and Norris McWhirter said to be its patrons. (Daily Telegraph 19 November 1986). MMU seems […]
[PDF file]: […] own investigative and public relations firm in 1954.7 Maheu used his relationship with other former federal agents to land his first regular client: the CIA’s Office of Security. That branch handled many of the Agency’s most sensitive and illegal operations, including drug testing and mind-control experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert […]
[PDF file]: […] I learnt of his consulting business, Global Counsel, and his membership of the Advisory Board of another business which many will not have heard of, the cyber security firm BlueVoyant. More on these later. As I surveyed the Register, I came across an interesting feature which Mandelson’s connection with a cyber security outfit suggested: […]
