[…] call themselves TARS, from the acronym of The Arthur Ransome Society, is still ringing with denunciations of Professor Andrew’s article, which had been cut from an easily-missed New Year’s Eve edition of The Times and faxed round the world. The TARS resent Professor Andrew’s claim that Ransome was a man who had ‘idolised’ Feliks […]
[…] of the books written by British MI5 and MI6 personnel, with short biographical sections by ‘West’. Some of this is quite interesting — lots of it was new to me — but as ‘West’ approaches the present day his editing becomes more and more eccentric. Thus, for example, we are informed that Kim Philby […]
[…] gives a hint or two. Goodman spent most of his career close to the Labour Party and – here’s the clue – the trade unions. He k new many of the leaders of both; and by the mid 1970s two of the union leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, had been promoted to the […]
[…] confidently believed at the time that British covert agencies were implicated in the loyalist campaign and the Brian Nelson case provided concrete evidence for this. Nick Davies’s new book, Ten Thirty Three, explores the Nelson affair and raises issues that must not be allowed to rest. While it is absolutely clear that the loyalist […]
[…] replace Private Eye as the major outlet – major above ground outlet – for British parapolitics. (Lobster, as one British academic said to me, is ‘underground’…). The new Kincora-Blunt trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of Commons (12/1/88) will run for years. The Cavendish book is an unprecedented public manifestation of […]
[…] now can not understand is how these subjects just seem to have disappeared again for the best part of a decade. Injectable microchips? Issue 3 of the New York-based magazine Eye, has an interesting article on injectable microchips. They are being used on pets now; how long before they’re used on humans? And under […]
[…] question: how did the alleged recruitment of a then insignificant English salesman in China in 1927 arise in the course of an interrogation in Estonia in 1941? New threats? New eats? A ‘jobs vacant’ bulletin circulated in the University of Westminster last year included an advertisement for linguists sought by MI5. The languages being […]
[…] specialised knowledge of this area all I can do is confine myself to the two books: the WIA updated and revised paperback, 260 pages long with no notes and no index; and the Short book, 350 pages with some notes and an index. On the basis of this evidence there really is little competition. […]
[…] apparently secret areas, if you could read everything you could connect more of the dots than any of the individual authors could and thus could produce a new synthesis. And this new synthesis, Scott’s deep politics of America, is offered here in what we might call its full maturity. Scott was the first person […]
Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson D. Jablow Hershman New Jersey: Barricade, 2002, $27.95 Colin Challen MP I tend to the view, presented succinctly in Who Shot JFK?, (10) that whoever assassinated Kennedy did so with the objective of installing LBJ as President. The tantalising question that arises is: did […]
