[…] Perry said Elwell’s 30-year service to his country in MI5 should properly remain a ‘closed book’. The nearest the congregation heard of the work of the senior secret policeman who smeared many on the left in British public life during the Cold War as being under Soviet influence was the reading from Henry Fielding’s […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] by Humans?’ (Dr Richard Offutt); ‘Ground Penetrating Radar’ (Charles Young) and one of Thomas Bearden’s quantum physics theory-laden and, to me, entirely unintelligible pieces called ‘The Final Secret of Free Energy.’ A sample copy is available for $4.00 from the editor, Judy Wall, 684 C.R. 535, Sumterville, FL 33585, USA. Anyone trying to make […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] employers. (Still unexplained is why the British Foreign Office put out the stories about Moyle dying as a result of auto-erotic asphyxia.) Given the shitty way the secret state treats its agents when they’re in trouble it’s a wonder anyone ever volunteers. But I guess the trick is to get them when, like Moyle, […]
[…] to history is something that we may have to wait years to discover. Watching the Watchers The State Department’s National Intelligence Council is drawing up a ‘ secret’ watch-list of 25 countries ‘where instab-ility might precipitate US intervention’. The intentions were announced at a conference organised by the US Institute of Peace, full of […]
[…] of young boys from the Kincora boys’ home in East Belfast’. (p. 192) (This story, I seem to remember, was first run through the Sunday Times.) A secret army unit kidnaps and tortures a student. A policeman investigating the assault is told by a retired Special Branch officer that he should look under his […]
[…] 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 […]
