[…] of heinous deeds. (22) Meanwhile, SIS and MI5 launch a campaign to attract those from various ethnic groups living in Britain to sign up to Her Majesty’s secret services…..(23) Spook PR and War with Iraq Nowhere has Whitehall’s Cold War (and macho) PR-machine been more in evidence than in its handling of Iraq. Take, […]
[…] 14 Nil. 15 One article. 16 Two articles 17 One and a bit articles. 18 Part of the cover image. Produced text of Who’s Who of British Secret State. 19 Three articles and cover image. 20 Nil. 21 Nil. 22 Book review, article, list of spooks. 23 Two articles. 24 Nil. Of the 13 […]
[…] year in which, according to Rose, ‘Class War played a leading role’.(6) Without doubt, NF members did turn up on ‘Stop the City’ activities, and made no secret of the fact.(7) However, they did not make themselves known at the time, and in any event the variety of anarchist organising the events was of […]
[…] Times, 11 October 2007.Meantime, the slanging-match with the Brits continues with Russia’s intelligence chief, Nikolai Patrushev, telling a Moscow newspaper: ‘Since the time of Elizabeth 1, British secret services have worked according to the principle of the “end justifies the means”. Money, bribery blackmail – these are their recruitment methods.’ As quoted in The […]
[…] articles, book reviews welcome. Send them to the address on the rear cover. Please indicate if a letter is for publication. Sorry if having only half the Secret Societies and MacGregor pieces is irritating. What happened was we had decided to run Marshall’s piece and then, just before paste-up the MacGregor thing arrived and […]
[…] latter relationship remained platonic. Clearly the sexual politics of the British governing elite in this period can do with further investigation. Mosley eventually married Diana Mitford in secret in Berlin in October 1936. Those present at the ceremony included Hitler and Goebbels. The secrecy attending this event has generally been put down to his […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] observed.20 Collective Lobbying The Lobby frequently invites Ministers and others to meet it collectively, to give information and answer questions. Members are under an obligation to keep secret the fact that such meetings are held and to avoid revealing the sources of their information. It is recognised, however, that a correspondent has a special […]
[…] 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 […]
