[…] it was wrong, the UK became complicit in a strategy that could only be used on terms that must now result in the mass murder of civilians. Iran has now become the case study. The Iranian revolutionary right has crushed the liberal opposition precisely because it is associated with the West, confrontation is growing […]
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School […]
[…] London, 1993). Crozier speaks highly of General Douglas Brown, manager of the trust in the late 1970s, who was able to facilitate contacts with the Shah of Iran at the time when Iran was on the brink of revolution (p. 157). General Brown also gave a crucial £50,000 donation to Crozier’s Institute for the […]
[…] in references to any New World Order. It is unlikely that Foreign and Commonwealth Office bureaucrats would advise anything as stupid or reckless as an invasion of Iran. In fact, the FCO is likely to favour involving Iran in the running of Basra. However, the proliferation of influential think tanks in the private sector […]
[…] freelance writer. Notes This account of the White House meeting is taken from National Security Council papers submitted to the Report of the Congressional Committees investigating the Iran Contra Affair (House Report No 100-433/Senate Report No 100-216, Washington 1988). The reason the material appears there would seem to be that key US personnel in […]
NB This essay has been compressed a good deal. The longer version is at < http://www.pertier.com/demos.html > Ostensibly a left-leaning ‘think tank’, Demos’ initial Advisory Board gathered mostly those who wished to extend ‘Thatcherism’ into the ‘New Labour’ project. The Advisory Board Martin JacquesHis time in the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) has been […]
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
[…] ‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics, by Jeffrey M. Bale, from Lobster 29 (1995) Enemies Within? Reviews from Lobster 29 (1995) A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran, by Mark Curtis, from Lobster 30 (1995) Recent JFK (and related) literature, by Anthony Frewin, from Lobster 31 (1996) Who were they travelling with? By Tom […]
[…] Foreign Office minister, and a colleague of his wife, in order to smooth a path through any objections to the deal arising from US sanctions policy towards Iran. Mills may be innocent of any specific wrongdoing in all of these cases, but the impression left is that of a seriously flawed judgement combined with […]
[…] like Rhyolite have their limitations, principally those of payload. The NSA were also monitoring the TELINT associated with missile launches from Krasnoyarsk from their station in northern Iran, only a couple of hundred miles away (Bamford p198). This proved so effective that when the NRO pushed for ARGOS (Advanced Rhyolite), US Secretary of Defence […]
