[…] by the USAF Scientific Advisory Board report entitled ‘New World Vistas: air and space power for the 21st century’, published in 1996. Sadly, for reasons of ‘national security’, attempts to obtain Freedom of Information Act disclosure, both in the UK and the USA, about this class of technology has not been successful enough to […]
[…] decided to officially declare its existence as the UDA becomes more weak, ineffectual and incapable of defending Protestant workers and working class homes against attacks by the Security Forces. Composed of more socialist orientated and class conscious members of the UDA, the Army came into being as a result of growing dissatisfaction and frustration […]
[…] that he thinks Hubbard’s service records may have been ‘sheep dipped’. Whatever the history of this episode, Parsons, post-Hubbard, attracted further FBI investigations. As a result his security clearance was withdrawn (1948) but reinstated (1949) so that he could work for the Hughes Corporation; withdrawn again (1950) and reinstated again (1952) so that he […]
[…] 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 […]
Donovan Pedelty Prometheus Press, Builth Wells, Powys, £13.50 This is a fascinating book. As the Labour Party approaches its 100th birthday, Donovan Pedelty critically assesses the extent to which it has realised its aim. In a detailed and well-argued account, he shows that whereas Labour always espoused equality, nevertheless the gulf between rich and poor … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] appeared to be taking the allegations seriously. In the final paragraphs the Telegraph provided what looks like a fall-back position if bodies are found: ‘Privately, police and security forces veterans believe that “Bruce” could have been part of a renegade band of soldiers who may have carried out some “freelance killings.”‘ To my knowledge […]
[…] 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 […]
[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: […]
