[…] same experiences as happened to Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, both investigative journalists from Northern Ireland. They produced the No Stone Unturned documentary highlighting collusion between the security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist terrorists. The reasoning for this harsh treatment meted out to a growing number of journalists across the UK, is firstly […]
[…] soon disappeared as the fog of the Cold War set. (Note also these quantum developments in the speedy turn to global empire: the creation of the National Security State, 1947; Israel, 1948; and the Korean War, 1950). The crowning legal achievements formed in this new crucible, inter alia, were the U.N. Charter and Geneva […]
[PDF file]: […] 14 May they intercepted in the post a photostat copy of a letter from Hess. This was forwarded to a Group Captain Blackford, Director of Intelligence ( Security) RAF.55 None of these documents, letters or photostats can be found in official files today. Hess and Kirkpatrick spoke again on 15 May. Hess requested that […]
[…] the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its members are […]
[…] the disruption.15 The nearby NAFO fan convention was opened in person by Lithuania’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis,16 which probably means the event’s 200 attendees all underwent security vetting first. How they even managed to afford to block book the hotel in the first place remains unclear. NAFO was approached in July 2024 and […]
[…] thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that Belfrage has been leaking material to the Soviets on instruction from BSC (British Security Co-ordination).1 Simkins included this killer paragraph: ‘If Gordon Corea and the other journalists working on this story had carried out a simple search for “Cedric Belfrage” […]
[PDF file]: […] connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a centre left journal which suffered a crisis in 1967 because of […]
[PDF file]: […] thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that Belfrage has been leaking material to the Soviets on instruction from BSC (British Security Co-ordination). Simkins included this killer paragraph: ‘If Gordon Corea and the other journalists working on this story had carried out a simple search for “Cedric Belfrage” […]
[PDF file]: […] two agenda items: ‘I. The possibilities of the development of a European energy policy, and the consequences for European-North American relations. II. Conflicting expectations concerning the European Security Conference.’ 54 The Steering Committee agreed that the authors of the working papers ‘should be in close contact with each other and the Secretariat, in order […]
[PDF file]: […] West – into satellite states with open doors for a combination of xenophobic politicians, dodgy businesses and Mafia bosses, all propped up by increasingly repressive military and security establishments looking to Moscow rather than Brussels and Washington. Putin, a former KGB officer unwilling and unable (it is said) to escape from the secretive and […]
