[…] example, in places like Hong Kong, for a variety of reasons would not have wished to be associated with a ‘security service’. They signed up to a Secret Intelligence Service, working for a particular set of ideals which they believed offered something to their countries. Sometimes all that people are looking for is a […]
[…] which has no equivalent in the UK. No. 10, for example contains this sequence of articles: a piece about Gerald Posner’s Case Closed; a piece called ‘ Secret Service Masers Kill and Make Whores’ about implants and mind control programmes of the US government, which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an […]
[…] which it means consumerism. 13 See ‘An increasing number of diplomats in British embassies are employees of commercial companies….. the Foreign Office for months battled to keep secret the posting of these private enterprise diplomats…..’ The Guardian 5 October 2002. 14 The Guardian 2 April 2003 15 The Observer 20 April 2003 16 The […]
[…] they were going to be sold down the river. This realisation, it is claimed, transformed the hitherto fragmented Protestant political and paramilitary community into a cohesive, province-wide, secret organisation, the Ulster Central Coordinating Committee. This worked with an ‘Inner Force’ which had formed inside the RUC. The Inner Force supplied intelligence on IRA members […]
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Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand … Read more
[…] book is centrally about the collusion between the loyalist paramilitaries and the British state. Except that ‘collusion’ isn’t really the right word. Yes there was a ‘fraudulent secret understanding between ostensible opponents’, as the Oxford Pocket defines collusion; but this was more than an ‘understanding’. To all intents and purposes the Army and the […]
[…] pervert. But are they of any interest other than the prurient? Yes, indeed. First of all, there is what they don’t reveal about Wyatt’s connection with the secret state and dirty tricks (he had been an important Information Research Department conduit). Much more important is what they do reveal about how contemporary Britain is […]
[…] book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing it. While non-attributable briefings are hardly a secret, the well-behaved media servant of the British state doesn’t generally mention them. In the first and best section of the book, Urban takes as his starting […]
[…] this (in an interview in Playboy, November 1992), and added that Jafar had been affiliated with Muslim fundamentalists in Lebanon and Detroit, who knew of his US secret state links. While al-Khassar and Rifaat Assat would not wish to see their drug pipeline through Frankfurt compromised by a terrorist attack, they also knew that […]
