The Information Research Department Andrew Defty Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2004, £23.99, p/b Thinking about this book, I wondered why people like me have been so interested in IRD for the last 30 years. There are two reasons, I think. The first is that way back in the 1970s, when information about the […]
House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger New York: Scribner, 2004, h/back, $26.00 I bought this because it was reported in the UK that the book couldn’t be published here due to our ‘stricter’ libel laws. Naturally, I wondered who among the Bushes and the Saudis might consider themselves libelled. The book […]
[…] supply operation. (3) Perhaps because of this, the Americans are making every effort to dispel suspicions of sabotage. But the Pakistani authorities are in no doubt: the new President Ghulam Ishaq Khan has spoken of the enemy penetrating into the very heart of the nation. The two main candidates for a sabotage operation must […]
[…] the ACC). Meanwhile Senator Thurmond was key senate contact of Tongsun Park, while in 1973 Park’s House proteges Richard Hanna and Robert Leggett helped set up a new pro-Taiwan lobby after a KMT-sponsored visit to Taipei. (126) Until the fall of the right-wing Cambodian government in 1975, the Moon paper, Rising Tide (full of […]
[…] a junior minister in the Treasury during the Heath years. His account confirms the analysis I offer of this period in chapter 1 of The Rise of New Labour. Obsessed with British entry into the EEC, Heath embarked upon his ‘dash for growth’, and turned the bankers loose. Having worked in the City, Nott […]
[…] of Wales in Cardiff John Booth is a free-lance journalist living in London Previous Lobsters 9, 10, 13, are £1.25 each (UK); $3.00 (US/Canada); £2.00 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 23 are £2.25 each (UK); $4.50 (US/Canada); £3.50 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) 19 is […]
[…] Britain. From 1963 onwards, after Blunt’s outing by Michael Straight, curiously coinciding with Philby’s by Flora Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes k new of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General […]
[…] interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner wondered what the Soviets knew about Oswald and sent someone to contact the KGB in Mexico City. (Innocent days, eh? In […]
The Last Investigation Gaeton Fonzi Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1993 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Peter Dale Scott University of California Press London and Berkeley, 1993 With Dick Russell’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, reviewed above by Alex Cox, these books are the best of the post Oliver Stone wave […]
[…] was to weaken, or preferably confine to history, socialist or social democratic values of solidarity and collective action. They were intent upon the permanent establishment of a new market-driven, neo-liberal economic order based upon Thatcherite beliefs in individualism and the unquestioned merits of private and corporate capital enterprise. An important section of Milne’s work […]
