[…] space programme. He has written: ‘John F. Kennedy’s lasting desire regarding the manned lunar landing program is recorded in National Security Action Memoranda 271 (a document kept secret for almost twenty years) in which he boldly called for the development of a program of substantial co-operation with the Soviet Union in matters relating to […]
[…] Pimlott a reluctance to believe it was really as bad as that, not in dear old Britain, not in the sixties and seventies. But Pimlott is a former Labour Party parliamentary candidate. Is it simply the politician’s reluctance to acknowledge encroachment of extra-parliamentary forces, especially the British secret state, on the turf marked ‘parliamentary politics’?
[…] KGB Today: The Hidden Hand John Barron (Coronet 1985) John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand is now available in paperback (Coronet 1985). Chapman Pincher in Too Secret Too Long says’Fedora’ was ‘definitely not Viktor Lessiovsky, as has been claimed. The most likely candidate seems to be Vladimir Chuchuken, a KGB agent at the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] they flunked the assassinations in the 1960s. Only once, with Watergate, and then only half-heartedly, have the Democrats been willing to take up the issue of the secret powers of the state and its links to their political enemies. Parry explains this paralysis, in part, as a fear of the Republican-supporting media created since […]
I was born in a working class area of Leeds in September 1919. My parents were Quaker-ILPers and it was natural for me to gravitate to the labour movement. In 1934 I left school and joined the South Leeds Labour Party. The Labour League of Youth of the pre-war period had been heavily infiltrated by … Read more
Anti-Alienism in England after the First World War – David Cesarani – in Immigrants and Minorities, March 1987 Pressure Groups, Tory Businessmen and the aura of political corruption before the First World War – Frans Coetzee – in Historical Journal, December 1986 Military Intelligence and the defence of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers and … Read more
[…] 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, […]
It is well known that counter insurgency expert Sir Robert Thompson, after his ‘success’ in Malaya, went to Vietnam, under the title of British Advisory Mission, to help the Americans. He was head of the mission until 1965, subsequently visiting Saigon a number of times before being appointed a special consultant by President Nixon. Less … Read more
[…] was bringing a genuine peace offer approved by Hitler, guaranteeing independence and the integrity of the Empire in return for benevolent neutrality over Barbarossa. Churchill, keeping this secret from most of the Foreign Office and all but a handful of trusted colleagues, set up a committee to analyse the terms of what was, in […]
