Footy and me I did two things with Paul Foot. Over two days, he, Colin Wallace and I copy-edited the manuscript of what became Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? Foot was impressively objective about his own writing, accepting editing suggestions on their merits. During a lunch break he said to me: ‘What’s a bright guy … Read more
[…] of the Anglo-American sponsorship of the coup – by the MI6 and CIA officers primarily responsible for it – are useful in reconstructing events.(1) Many of the secret planning documents that reveal the British role have been removed from public access and some of them remain closed until the next century – for reasons […]
[…] of Great Britain industrial machine had financial support from the USSR, although the extent of this backing has yet to be quantified. See The Enemy Within: the Secret War Against the Miners by Seamus Milne (Verso, London 1994), which shows that substantial Soviet state cash was made available for the miners strike as recently […]
[…] didn’t get any attention in Lobster: I read it for the publisher months before it was published in the U.K.. Although largely based on Jim Hougan’s 1984 Secret Agenda (reviewed in Lobster 8), Colodny and Gettlin have done an impressive research job which results in these central claims: As Hougan argued, the break-in which […]
The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, Oakland … 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, […]
[…] an Italian periodical, reported that Silone was ‘between 1928 and 1930, not just a leader of the CP in Italy, but a reliable collaborator of the fascist secret police OVRA’. I have seen no reference to this in Britain. Some of Laurens Otter’s comments on the Common Wealth Party in Feedback (Lobster 36) were […]
[…] Bennewitz, eventually wrote the script for an episode of The X Files! The author thinks that this disinformation began as a means of misdirecting Bennewitz away from secret US Air Force operations; but I wonder. The thing to do with an inquisitive businessman who makes his living selling electronic kit to the US government […]
[…] light in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). After leaving the United States for Italy he is known to have had close connections with the Italian secret service (SISMI) when living in Rome in the mid-1970s, in part through his associate Francesco Pazienza and his links to the Propaganda Due (P2) masonic network […]
[…] similar to their smearing and libelling of the Observer journalist Gregory Palast. Palast was a ‘sex pest’; Henderson a ‘stalker’. Henderson then received the attention of the secret state, having his mail interfered with and (he thinks) his phone tapped. Henderson has written to everybody – hundreds of people, the entire British political establishment […]
