[…] found out), but equally it was not a totally sovereign ‘foreign’ state with which formal diplomatic relations could be established which would allow the operation of the Secret Intelligence Service on a formal basis. Co-operation, at least in the formative years of the southern state, was always problematic, not least because many senior British […]
[…] – operating much more clearly than Carroll Quigley managed with his much wider focus. The sewer and the sewage The Sunday Times has been one of the secret state’s major disinformation tools for over a decade now – and maybe longer; I haven’t looked any further back. In my ‘Miscellaneous cuttings’ file I noticed […]
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
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
[…] the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. Arthur Martin (Obituary, Guardian 2 February 1996). One of MI5’s ‘mole hunters’, ally of Peter Wright Christopher Mayhew The long obituary in the Daily Telegraph […]
[…] book such as this invites readers to construct their own wish-list of topics that really should have been included. I would probably include a wider selection of secret and security services and their misdeeds, including South Africa’s apartheid era BOSS and the French sinkers of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior; an investigation into the murky world […]
[…] have been cited before in similar contexts. Quite what ‘the CIA’ means to Stich isn’t always clear. Some of the time ‘the CIA’ means a kind of secret team to Stich: this is the Christic Institute thesis with bells on. At other times he seems to be suggesting that the entire agency has become […]
[…] at Central TV, in particular, have stayed on in their jobs after fronting stories on this not only completely false but so obviously sources back to the secret state.’ Ian Pollard, researcher for the Channel 4 documentary,’The Arthur Legend’, which examined the generation of these smears, wrote to correct me. The Mirror and Cook […]
[…] right, and Knupffer, see Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day (New York: Autonomedia, 1999) pp. 598-615, and Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service (New York: The Free Press, 2000), especially chapters 20 and 21. 17 Knupffer based his views on the idea that the CIA, acting at […]
[…] television version of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It depicted the tempting of senior UK espionage moguls with a one-off, spectacular solution to Secret Britain’s ills, a Soviet super-spy who would get us back in with the Americans and restore our standing in the world. In the real world, this […]
