[…] forces’. Again, I checked in Curtis and he cites one sentence from Bloch and Fitzgerald’s British Intelligence and Covert Action. which describes SAS personnel being attached to New Zealand and Australian SAS units. Well, I have no reason to doubt them; and no reason to doubt that the SAS dipped their toes in Vietnam. […]
[…] to by the Privy Council since 1970” produced half an answer. Since 1980, Livingstone was told, the list has included Campaign, Economist, Farmers Weekly, Financial Weekly, Listener, New Scientist, New Society, New Statesman, Now, Private Eye, Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Tribune and the UK Press Gazette.It is a pity that no information was available […]
[…] Labour Revisionists, Atlanticism and the Cold War’ (Contemporary British History, Autumn 2001) is a very interesting paper, (29 pages with 150 notes) which contains a lot of new material. Black is that unusual creature, an academic historian who has included Bilderberg in his account. AIDS Remember all the conspiracy theories claiming that the AIDS […]
Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in […]
[…] The most interesting quote in the book concerns the Iraq war and a warning given by a former fellow of the CFR, and energy reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Youssef Ibrahim. He warned the war would back-fire and said: ‘The upcoming war against Iraq has nothing to do with […]
How often does the conspiracy buff/ parapolitics connoisseur stumble upon a new, all-colour, glossy parapolitics magazine at W. H. Smith’s at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot’s fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the useful account of the ‘birth of the Defense Intelligence Agency’. In between are a number of good essays on American intelligence which are well-serviced with notes and bibliography. It is hardly revisionist, though in an academic environment they obviously would appear to be. By far the most interesting selection is Andrew Lownie’s […]
