[…] news letters are an active network: “Geheim works closely with…. Lobster‘. The truth is more prosaic. Lobster does exchange subscriptions with Intelligence Newsletter, Covert Action and Top Secret, and has plugged all of them in its columns over the years. I have been called once on the telephone by Olivier Schmidt in Paris and […]
[…] 14 Nil. 15 One article. 16 Two articles 17 One and a bit articles. 18 Part of the cover image. Produced text of Who’s Who of British Secret State. 19 Three articles and cover image. 20 Nil. 21 Nil. 22 Book review, article, list of spooks. 23 Two articles. 24 Nil. Of the 13 […]
[…] year in which, according to Rose, ‘Class War played a leading role’.(6) Without doubt, NF members did turn up on ‘Stop the City’ activities, and made no secret of the fact.(7) However, they did not make themselves known at the time, and in any event the variety of anarchist organising the events was of […]
Editorially Writing in mid-January… good news is the arrival of The Digger, apparently set fair to replace Private Eye as the major outlet – major above ground outlet – for British parapolitics. (Lobster, as one British academic said to me, is ‘underground’…). The new Kincora-Blunt trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of … Read more
[…] powerful Japanese task force comprising six of their carriers, two battleships and a number of other units to include tankers and cruisers, has sailed yesterday from a secret base in the northern Japanese islands. Roosevelt We both knew this was coming. There are also reports in my hands about a force of some size […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] prepare for the forthcoming struggle with the British coal communities and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)?(4) Having ostentatiously broken off all relations with Libya, such a secret deal could only have been brokered at a price, and perhaps that price involved the treatment of embassy staff. The demonisation of Gaddafi This murder, and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
