[…] worth noting here, was on the original Council of the Society for Individual Freedom in 1944, along with IPG member Sir Reginald Blaker. John Loftus, The Belarus Secret (London, 1983) p 165, 205. This has been remaindered in the UK and in kicking around for 30 or 40p. One of the most important books […]
[…] at Central TV, in particular, have stayed on in their jobs after fronting stories on this not only completely false but so obviously sources back to the secret state.’ Ian Pollard, researcher for the Channel 4 documentary,’The Arthur Legend’, which examined the generation of these smears, wrote to correct me. The Mirror and Cook […]
[…] were in 1977, just before North Sea oil came on stream: too much London/City-dominance; vast income and wealth inequalities; deindustrialization; the determination of the British state (and secret state) to remain America’s flunkey. The Labour left had all this down pat thirty years ago (read Tony Benn’s diaries for the period). Now we are […]
[…] 1983) that the Centre receives – “unofficially and in breach of Whitehall rules -copies of confidential government documents”. The Centre has a Defence Study Group with a secret and high-powered membership, and a group studying the direction and control of British foreign policy .Does anyone have anything on Natalia Brooke, Centre Secretary, whose grandfather […]
From April to late June 1992, I spent some three months in a Dutch refugee camp, OC Zeewolde. I had applied for political asylum. The Dutch authorities had agreed immediately, to fully process the application. I gave them no reason for my application. The Bosnian war was beginning and the Dutch reception centres for refugees … Read more
[…] I see little point in simple collation. Plus the spooks don’t seem as important as they did. If someone offered me a new list of the British secret state, an update of the one I published in 1989, I’m not sure I would devote an entire issue of Lobster to it as I did […]
[…] most of the party’s history. First among these he places ‘insistence on the primacy of the United Nations’ (after 1945). Then come ‘suspicion of power politics and secret diplomacy’; ‘anti-colonialism’; the idea that war should be a ‘last resort’ only; ‘morality’; and a ‘suspicion of US motives’. By 2003 most of those had gone […]
[…] & Schuster/New York, 1992. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, ‘Why Was the CIA Established in 1947?’, Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 12 No. 1, January 1997, pp.32-33. Trevor Barnes, ‘The Secret Cold War: The CIA and American Foreign Policy in Europe 1946-1956’, (Part I), Historical Journal Vol. 25 No. 3, 1982, p.407. Foreign Relations of the United […]
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 5 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
[…] Germany, by jealous continentals, by naive Americans and by communists, until there is a defector from its steering committee prepared to tell the world what this utterly secret and seemingly conspiratorial group is up to.’ Edward Heath at Bilderberg Of more interest, the same issue of Freedom Today contains some striking evidence of attempts […]
