[…] news letters are an active network: “Geheim works closely with…. Lobster‘. The truth is more prosaic. Lobster does exchange subscriptions with Intelligence Newsletter, Covert Action and Top Secret, and has plugged all of them in its columns over the years. I have been called once on the telephone by Olivier Schmidt in Paris and […]
[…] 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 instab-ility might precipitate US intervention’. The intentions were announced at a conference organised by the US Institute of Peace, full of […]
Editorially Writing in mid-January… good news is the arrival of The Digger, apparently set fair to replace Private Eye as the major outlet – major above ground outlet – for British parapolitics. (Lobster, as one British academic said to me, is ‘underground’…). The new Kincora-Blunt trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] year in which, according to Rose, ‘Class War played a leading role’.(6) Without doubt, NF members did turn up on ‘Stop the City’ activities, and made no secret of the fact.(7) However, they did not make themselves known at the time, and in any event the variety of anarchist organising the events was of […]
[…] only was there was little knowledge of Texas among the research community, the climate of the times pushed the researchers, who were mostly left-liberals, towards the American secret state and away from Texas, crime and mere venal politicians. As for Collum and Sample, who basically solved the case, the irony is that had they […]
[…] powerful Japanese task force comprising six of their carriers, two battleships and a number of other units to include tankers and cruisers, has sailed yesterday from a secret base in the northern Japanese islands. Roosevelt We both knew this was coming. There are also reports in my hands about a force of some size […]
Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. … Read more
[…] much of this programme was known about by the politicians who were nominally in charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the continuing reevaluation of the Cold War; and what with the […]
Mandy, The Independent and Europe As pictures of H’Angus the Monkey, the new elected mayor of Hartlepool, filled the news pages, it emerged more quietly that the other public face of that poor North-East town, Peter Mandelson, had joined the international advisory board of News and Media, the owners of The Independent and The Independent … Read more
