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[…] 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 […]
[…] mind control, which is why the Americans are so frightened of it. The latter was so culturally specific that it may have been learned from Saddam Hussein’s secret police with whom the US were working last year, or from deliberate – as opposed to vicarious – scrutiny of the latter’s photographic archive, perhaps pointing […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
[…] every reason to examine carefully other claims by both men, because they may have been misled by just such gossip…. I think Holroyd did hear about many secret matters but never fully understood their significance. I believe the explanation for the story of the loss of agents is to be found in a related […]
[…] Thomas on ‘Reich and Little Rock’; a snippet on Cord Meyer, Mary Meyer, James Angleton et al; and a long extract from Charles Ameringer’s U.S.Foreign Intelligence: the Secret Side of American History. The first volume is the better of the two if you want information; the second contains a couple of long graphic features, […]
[…] effect, a protracted psy-ops campaign directed against the Labour Party (and, to a lesser extent, the Liberal Party); that, in short, Harold Wilson’s charges against the British ‘secret state’ made in 1976 were correct and not mere paranoia. Captain Fred Holroyd, former Special Military Intelligence Unit Officer in Northern Ireland, and Colin Wallace, former […]
[…] 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 […]
