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 […]
James Jesus Angleton and the ‘Third Way’ The CIA counter-intelligence expert James Angleton has for years been regarded as one of the keenest of cold warriors, who turned the CIA inside out in the search for Soviet ‘moles’ and ultimately had to be retired to prevent further damage to the Agency. But interesting current […]
[…] chemical usage and comprised of a steel body with a Mark 131 fin assembly and Central Bursting Tube – according to information made available. A chemical weapons test with a field test kit (designated ‘Mary 256’) was conducted and revealed the munition to contain a mixture of Tabun, Sarin and Cyclo-Sarin. It must be […]
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 […]
[…] reviews: ‘Unassailably accurate … beautifully written … the definitive book on the Hollis story’ – The Times ‘Lively, well-written a completely engrossing book. West has unearthed completely new material’ – Financial Times ‘West is a thorough and meticulous researcher. His book is one of the most interesting to appear for many years’ – The […]
[…] 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 Zahedi in his place as Prime Minister. This was a coup designed with the following detailed modus operandi. General Nasiri would deliver Zahedi the order for new post as Prime Minister. Exactly at 10 pm Nasiri would deliver Musadegh’s dismissal to him. Two Guard officers would walk a short distance from Nasiri to […]
[…] failed to penetrate British (but essentially English) culture. By looking at 20th British history through the development of the aircraft industry, Edgerton shows us British society through new eyes — and in so doing tramples gleefully all over the boundary markers of several would-be discrete academic areas. The state equals military power; and after […]
[…] unable to plan for the post-war phase until December 2002 – just three months before the start of the invasion.’(2) In The Guardian, in extracts from his new book, Jonathan Steele reported: ‘The government’s top foreign policy advisers were as inept as their US counterparts in failing to see that removing Saddam Hussein in […]
[…] who described the torrent of official information they were receiving from their British military and intelligence connections in the late 1980s – more material than he k new what to do with, he said. This section is missing from the book. It’s not that Taylor actually tries to avoid this area: it just doesn’t […]
