[…] be found at Russell’s story Roderick Russell, whose experience at the hands of agents working for Grosvenor International was briefly described in Lobster 56, has placed a new full-length account, originally a paper delivered at a conference, on-line (6) Centrally he asks the question: ‘From a victim’s perspective, how do you protect whistle-blowers when […]
Peter Phillips and Project Censored (2003) New York: Seven Stories, £12.99 Project Censored is a centre for research and campaigning related to freedom of information, set up in 1976 at Sonoma State University in California. Every year since 1994 (with a break in 2002), the project has produced a survey of the year’s […]
[…] the back of the increasing awareness of, and anxiety about, the polluted industrial environment, the anti-fluoride case has crawled out of the sandpit and has shaken itself free of the most destructive associations. This terrific, massively documented book does tell that story; but the big story it tells is how fluoride got into the […]
[…] Violet became so much an ’eminence grise’ in the SDECE that Alexandre de Marenches had to dispense with his services in order to assert his authority as new SDECE chief in 1970. This episode has however not prevented them from working together within the Circle. At the time the Langemann papers were written, Franks […]
[…] off the cops and the local Democratic Party. Unaware of the intelligence connections of the laundry, or the money (and votes) given by the Dominicans to the New York Democratic Party, the head of the anti-smuggling unit of the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) in New York leads a multi-agency task force to investigate […]
[…] Mr Stokes Once the war with Poland was over, though, Ramsay and his friends openly strove to reach a deal with Hitler. Nor were they alone. Griffiths notes the effort put into this by Richard Stokes – Labour MP for Ipswich.(4) The Soviet attack on Finland (November 30th 1939) opened the possibility of converting […]
[…] influence of US public diplomacy in the UK, in particular the use of the International Visitor Program as a channel for encouraging dialogue and the introduction of new ideas into the Labour Party during the 1980s.’ And Smith lists all those who took the freebies on offer (for the most part they are the […]
[…] WW2 UFO flap in the United States. Scott Van Wynsberghe locates the Kennedy assassination author Paris Flammonde on the Long John Knebel Show, a radio chat-show in New York, apparently with a reputation of giving space to UFO reports. As far as I am aware Long John Knebel first surfaced in this country in […]
[…] p.365 we are told that Reilly/Rosenblum was ‘….one of the early architects of the international drugs trade….’. This is advanced because one Arnold Rothstein – a significant New York gangster in the ’20s – organised shipments of poppy seeds (5) from Manchuria to Latvia (with passage across the Soviet Union facilitated by Bolshevik functionaries) […]
[…] to me in a telephone call that he had fully corroborated Black Cat during a month- long trip to the US in late 1998. He also k new that a second mission that he dubbed Black Cat 11 had taken place but remained unable to penetrate it. This was obviously Operation Black Dog. Interestingly, […]
