[…] came across Scott’s term parapolitics in the 1970s, as well as being a subject area, it also seemed to me to be a method: even in apparently secret areas, if you could read everything you could connect more of the dots than any of the individual authors could and thus could produce a new […]
[…] articles, book reviews welcome. Send them to the address on the rear cover. Please indicate if a letter is for publication. Sorry if having only half the Secret Societies and MacGregor pieces is irritating. What happened was we had decided to run Marshall’s piece and then, just before paste-up the MacGregor thing arrived and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] strategy of tension period when Israel was battling with Italy for the ear of the US in the Mediterranean and Ledeen became involved with SISMI, the Italian secret service. From Italy, Ledeen moved back to Washington where, during his CSIS spell, he played an important role in the so-called Billygate incident, when the brother […]
[…] Rees, although he says he’s for Freedom of Information, will likewise be closemouthed in Northern Ireland: a personal perspective (Methuen) Out soon from academic Dr. Christopher Andrews, Secret Service – a look at the British intelligence community from the Crimea to WW2. Andrews is going to present documentary evidence of “at least one Cambridge […]
[…] book is centrally about the collusion between the loyalist paramilitaries and the British state. Except that ‘collusion’ isn’t really the right word. Yes there was a ‘fraudulent secret understanding between ostensible opponents’, as the Oxford Pocket defines collusion; but this was more than an ‘understanding’. To all intents and purposes the Army and the […]
[…] revived under that name’.(1) The second interpretation is defended by historians such as John Hope and D. S. Lewis. Hope investigates the links which existed between the secret services and the fascist groups. By examining the fortunes of fascists, such as W. E. D. Allen, and of members of MI5, including Maxwell Knight, he […]
[…] a blog on the book and its reception at Named after Francis Bacon who, while a great scientist and thinker, was also an enthusiastic servant of the secret arms of the state. This book appeared just before the stories of forces of the Occult Enlightenment trying to rewrite Wikipedia entries – the perfect illustration […]
[…] example, in places like Hong Kong, for a variety of reasons would not have wished to be associated with a ‘security service’. They signed up to a Secret Intelligence Service, working for a particular set of ideals which they believed offered something to their countries. Sometimes all that people are looking for is a […]
[…] which it means consumerism. 13 See ‘An increasing number of diplomats in British embassies are employees of commercial companies….. the Foreign Office for months battled to keep secret the posting of these private enterprise diplomats…..’ The Guardian 5 October 2002. 14 The Guardian 2 April 2003 15 The Observer 20 April 2003 16 The […]
