[…] Another view of the Afghani mujahidin funding their war with the Soviet Union by selling opium – with the complicity of the US – was in ‘Britain’s secret army’ by Tom Carew in Sunday Times 13 August 2000. Spectre Spectre has been plugged before in these columns as one of the more interesting anti-globalisation, […]
[…] you certainly can fool some of the media some of the time, especially the bits that have or have had a covert relationship with the Anglo- American secret states. Legend got tons of favourable publicity from the Anglo-American right media. It wasn’t just the Stone movie, of course, which transformed the climate: more that […]
[…] had something to do with the cost of Trident/Polaris swallowing up the available military budgets. Nonetheless, this a considerable step forward in our understanding – and demystification – of Whitehall’s secret warriors. Notes 1 John Ware has his uses, doesn’t he? Rubbishing Wallace and getting Wright to admit it was all nonsense. Nice one, John.
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] documents published with the Pentagon Papers have confirmed) relied heavily on the opium growing KMT troops of the Burma-Laos-Thailand border areas and their contacts with the pro-KMT secret societies in the overseas Chinese communities. (19) Through its ‘proprietaries’ like Civil Air Transport (CAT) and Sea Supply Inc., the CIA had provided logistic support to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] pp. 112-121. 9 Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations, London 1971, pp. 24-25. 10 For COINTELPRO see Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, Boston MA, 1990. 11 Kitson, Low Intensity Operations, op cit, p. 52. 12 See Scott […]
[…] enough to have been in the way of something – accidental victims of some experiment. It says a great deal about this benighted country, and the sheer stupidity of so many of its secret servants that rather than just admit this, apologise, and offer restitution, the British state went into full-scale cover-up and harassment mode.
[…] the time.) It’s hard to understand why this thesis is so interesting to Encounter’s editor. All the Allies were playing complex games during the war; all had secret plans for the post-war years; all ran deceptions on allies as well as enemies. On this, on the British side, see, for example, the sections on […]
