[…] (and maybe had his phone tapped for the attempt). In an article in Times Higher Educational Supplement (24 April 1987) he wonders: “Does Britain really have a secret conspiratorial history which nobody is to be allowed to get wind of? The scraps of intelligence that have got through the fence suggest that it may […]
[…] disingenuous. With his usual diligence, Hersh has unearthed a rich seam of original interviews with some of the supporting cast of the Kennedy White House – secretaries, secret service personnel etc. There are, however, problems with the three main sources, Judith Exner, Sam Halpern and Robert Maheu. Exner was an admitted perjurer at the […]
[…] make astrological computations induced President Sukarno of Indonesia to make various moves which suited our purposes. But the arrangement we made with Moral Rearmament gave us useful secret channels right into the minds of leaders not only in Africa and Asia but also in Europe. When Bob made similar arrangements with Scientology, the brainchild […]
[…] covert operators? Although topped and tailed with new material, this is otherwise unchanged since the hard-back edition in 1989. The further collapse of the Soviet empire since then has made a page or two now sound rather odd, but this remains the most purely enjoyable and subversive single volume on the world’s secret servants. RR
[…] mind control, which is why the Americans are so frightened of it. The latter was so culturally specific that it may have been learned from Saddam Hussein’s secret police with whom the US were working last year, or from deliberate as opposed to vicarious scrutiny of the latter’s photographic archive, perhaps pointing […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
[…] Thomas on ‘Reich and Little Rock’; a snippet on Cord Meyer, Mary Meyer, James Angleton et al; and a long extract from Charles Ameringer’s U.S.Foreign Intelligence: the Secret Side of American History. The first volume is the better of the two if you want information; the second contains a couple of long graphic features, […]
[…] 1971, Uruguay in February 1973, and Chile in September 1973. (68) Recent French books report that in this same general period former French members of the anti-Gaullist Secret Army (OAS), along with their opposite numbers from the pro-Gaullist barbouzes, worked for the security forces of Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay … and Venezuela and Argentina, […]
[…] observed.20 Collective Lobbying The Lobby frequently invites Ministers and others to meet it collectively, to give information and answer questions. Members are under an obligation to keep secret the fact that such meetings are held and to avoid revealing the sources of their information. It is recognised, however, that a correspondent has a special […]
[…] Bailey, Coronet Books, London, 1979 See Lobsters 31 and 33 for more on Williams. Readers who are new to this topic may find Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Fourth Estate, London 1981 and Lobster 31 and Lobster 33 (see the articles: Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the […]
