[…] latter relationship remained platonic. Clearly the sexual politics of the British governing elite in this period can do with further investigation. Mosley eventually married Diana Mitford in secret in Berlin in October 1936. Those present at the ceremony included Hitler and Goebbels. The secrecy attending this event has generally been put down to his […]
[…] by the British Army. (And thus his other claims about intelligence operations in Northern Ireland should not be taken seriously…..) In 1990, in a piece called ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ in the Spectator (24 March 1990) Ware returned to Wallace and parachuting, reiterating his 1987 claims that Wallace had either lied or […]
[…] activity: they show regular contacts with US Presidents and key officials such as Robert McNamara, Walt Rostow and Henry Kissinger. There are boxes of classified and Top Secret US government material which cover the cold war period from 1947 to 1966, and which were apparently ‘removed’ for Brandon’s benefit from ‘series, folders and boxes […]
[…] Nasiri, Zahedi, the three unit commanders, two guard officers, a large number of other military personnel, were all aware, and at the same time apprehensive. Consequently, the secret was out, causing gossip and the failure of the plan. The assigned time – 10 pm – was not suitable. Although there was no other alternative […]
[…] I see little point in simple collation. Plus the spooks don’t seem as important as they did. If someone offered me a new list of the British secret state, an update of the one I published in 1989, I’m not sure I would devote an entire issue of Lobster to it as I did […]
[…] you certainly can fool some of the media some of the time, especially the bits that have or have had a covert relationship with the Anglo- American secret states. Legend got tons of favourable publicity from the Anglo-American right media. It wasn’t just the Stone movie, of course, which transformed the climate: more that […]
See note(1) By some standards, the loss of 269 souls aboard Korean Air Lines flight 007 on August 31, 1983, was a modest disaster. The Titanic, for example, claimed 1503 lives; the Lusitania 1198. But historians may come to believe that the political implications of the downing of the civilian 747 airliner by a Soviet … Read more
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 1 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
[…] 1983) that the Centre receives – “unofficially and in breach of Whitehall rules -copies of confidential government documents”. The Centre has a Defence Study Group with a secret and high-powered membership, and a group studying the direction and control of British foreign policy .Does anyone have anything on Natalia Brooke, Centre Secretary, whose grandfather […]
[…] is heard from the Lib Dems or Tories. In the case of the Bedford granny-farming scandal, not even the dubiously-defeated Lib Dem has voiced a complaint. The secret behind all this abuse is that the parties are all in it together. The silence from the opposition every time a rigger is caught out, is […]
