[…] of the case studies a revised edition may be necessary. ‘Chemical tests carried out in West…’, Western Daily Press, 16 September 2002; Anon, ‘Demands for probe into secret chemical drops on the West’, Western Daily Press, 25 August 2005; Jane Denny, ‘Experts weigh into our campaign’, Norwich Evening News, 16 September 2005; Adrian Shaw, […]
Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand … Read more
[…] & Schuster/New York, 1992. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, ‘Why Was the CIA Established in 1947?’, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 12 No. 1, January 1997, pp.32-33. Trevor Barnes, ‘The Secret Cold War: The CIA and American Foreign Policy in Europe 1946-1956’, (Part I), Historical Journal Vol. 25 No. 3, 1982, p.407. Foreign Relations of the United […]
[…] been allowed to participate in IRA meetings…’ Ken Livingstone’s memory Ken Livingstone MP revisited this area in his column in The Independent on 21 May. Titled ‘The secret conspiracy to destroy peace in Ireland’, this was Ken revisiting the days in 1987 when he made his maiden speech in the Commons based on the […]
[…] (Mercier Press, Dublin 1985) This is an intense disappointment. The subtitle – “a study of the vilification of Charles J. Haughey, code-named Operation Brogue by the British Secret Service” – promises much, none of which is delivered. There isn’t a single honest-to-goodness fact in the entire book: no names of agents, no details of […]
[…] Germany, by jealous continentals, by naive Americans and by communists, until there is a defector from its steering committee prepared to tell the world what this utterly secret and seemingly conspiratorial group is up to.’ Edward Heath at Bilderberg Of more interest, the same issue of Freedom Today contains some striking evidence of attempts […]
[…] Bailey, Coronet Books, London, 1979 See Lobsters 31 and 33 for more on Williams. Readers who are new to this topic may find Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Fourth Estate, London 1981 and Lobster 31 and Lobster 33 (see the articles: Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the […]
[…] disingenuous. With his usual diligence, Hersh has unearthed a rich seam of original interviews with some of the supporting cast of the Kennedy White House – secretaries, secret service personnel etc. There are, however, problems with the three main sources, Judith Exner, Sam Halpern and Robert Maheu. Exner was an admitted perjurer at the […]
[…] not conflict with each other at the level that the target audience perceives them. Meantime it rewarded the memory of dead MICE by signing-up Saddam Hussein’s hated, secret police. According to US logic, all the local agents in Iraq it is desperate to recruit but cannot are MICE; the brave agent executed by Saddam […]
[…] covert operators? Although topped and tailed with new material, this is otherwise unchanged since the hard-back edition in 1989. The further collapse of the Soviet empire since then has made a page or two now sound rather odd, but this remains the most purely enjoyable and subversive single volume on the world’s secret servants. RR
