From April to late June 1992, I spent some three months in a Dutch refugee camp, OC Zeewolde. I had applied for political asylum. The Dutch authorities had agreed immediately, to fully process the application. I gave them no reason for my application. The Bosnian war was beginning and the Dutch reception centres for refugees … Read more
[…] to history is something that we may have to wait years to discover. Watching the Watchers The State Department’s National Intelligence Council is drawing up a ‘ secret’ watch-list of 25 countries ‘where instability might precipitate US intervention’. The intentions were announced at a conference organised by the US Institute of Peace, full of […]
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[…] & Schuster/New York, 1992. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, ‘Why Was the CIA Established in 1947?’, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 12 No. 1, January 1997, pp.32-33. Trevor Barnes, ‘The Secret Cold War: The CIA and American Foreign Policy in Europe 1946-1956’, (Part I), Historical Journal Vol. 25 No. 3, 1982, p.407. Foreign Relations of the United […]
Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand … Read more
[…] 3 Peter Wright, Spycatcher (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987); Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1988); Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991). 4 David Stirling, ‘The Great Britain 75 Organization’, Peace News Special Issue 23 August 1974. 5 Kenneth O. Morgan’s The People’s […]
[…] (Mercier Press, Dublin, 1985) This is an intense disappointment. The subtitle – “a study of the vilification of Charles J. Haughey, code-named Operation Brogue by the British Secret Service” – promises much, none of which is delivered. There isn’t a single honest-to-goodness fact in the entire book: no names of agents, no details of […]
[…] This second has multiple, named sources and is more likely to be true. If it is true, how dumb of the Iraqis to try all this in secret! Had they gone to the United Nations and said this – who knows? And did Prime Minister Blair know of these offers? It would rather awkward […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] feel the issues involved would be too much to take on at this time.’ This Logan interprets as ‘a clear indication of penetration and manipulation by the secret police’. Actually it indicates only the limited resources of the Liberty/NCCL. They have to decide which of the many appeals they receive should actually be worked […]
