[…] Nasiri, Zahedi, the three unit commanders, two guard officers, a large number of other military personnel, were all aware, and at the same time apprehensive. Consequently, the secret was out, causing gossip and the failure of the plan. The assigned time – 10 pm – was not suitable. Although there was no other alternative […]
[…] they flunked the assassinations in the 1960s. Only once, with Watergate, and then only half-heartedly, have the Democrats been willing to take up the issue of the secret powers of the state and its links to their political enemies. Parry explains this paralysis, in part, as a fear of the Republican-supporting media created since […]
I was born in a working class area of Leeds in September 1919. My parents were Quaker-ILPers and it was natural for me to gravitate to the labour movement. In 1934 I left school and joined the South Leeds Labour Party. The Labour League of Youth of the pre-war period had been heavily infiltrated by … Read more
[…] ‘we are all Thatcherites now’. At least there are a few people left who think this subject merits debate. Notes 1 Colin Challen, Price of Power: the secret funding of the Tory Party, (London: Vision, 1998) 2 Jules Witcover, No Way to Pick a President: How money and hired guns have debased American elections, […]
[…] killed by the Communist Chinese and whom they described as the first casualty of the Cold War. The Birchers claimed that America was being undermined by a secret communist conspiracy. They stood for resistance to collectivism and for the freedom of the individual. Writing in 1970 the founder of the society, Robert Welsh, declared […]
[…] Standard and Poor’s Register 1982 See Who Owns Whom and Extel Fairey manufactures bridges and trackways. In 1934 the Union of Democratic Control published a booklet The Secret International which described Fairey as “the most important firm manufacturing military aeroplanes”, but the document named Vickers as the most important arms firm of the day. […]
[…] space programme. He has written: ‘John F. Kennedy’s lasting desire regarding the manned lunar landing program is recorded in National Security Action Memoranda 271 (a document kept secret for almost twenty years) in which he boldly called for the development of a program of substantial co-operation with the Soviet Union in matters relating to […]
[…] Pimlott a reluctance to believe it was really as bad as that, not in dear old Britain, not in the sixties and seventies. But Pimlott is a former Labour Party parliamentary candidate. Is it simply the politician’s reluctance to acknowledge encroachment of extra-parliamentary forces, especially the British secret state, on the turf marked ‘parliamentary politics’?
[…] fantasies than fully realisable attempts to overthrow the existing regime and institute some form of republic. Students of the arcane arts of espionage, agents provocateurs and of secret policing will find much of interest in the book. However, somewhere in that dark and unknowable place between the original pitch for it, the author’s research […]
[…] are due to begin declining in 1987. When the decline gets underway the economic consequences for this country are going to be horrendous. This is hardly a secret. Some economic commentators (Wynne Godley, William Keegan), have been warning about it for at least 5 years. The Treasury computer model of the British economy will […]
