[…] up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret Intelligence Services, GCHQ, in the Index …..you guessed it: all their references are ‘666’. The book is 550 pages long and it has 1491 column references. […]
It is well known that counter insurgency expert Sir Robert Thompson, after his ‘success’ in Malaya, went to Vietnam, under the title of British Advisory Mission, to help the Americans. He was head of the mission until 1965, subsequently visiting Saigon a number of times before being appointed a special consultant by President Nixon. Less … Read more
[…] gathering over Kamchatka Since the late 1950s the US has been monitoring the Soviet launch site in Krasnoyarsk in order to determine Soviet nuclear capabilities (Klass, P Secret Sentries in Space, Random House, US, 1971, p30). Initially this was solely to evaluate appropriate military responses but with the signing of the 1972 SALT 1 […]
[…] disingenuous. With his usual diligence, Hersh has unearthed a rich seam of original interviews with some of the supporting cast of the Kennedy White House – secretaries, secret service personnel etc. There are, however, problems with the three main sources, Judith Exner, Sam Halpern and Robert Maheu. Exner was an admitted perjurer at the […]
[…] covert operators? Although topped and tailed with new material, this is otherwise unchanged since the hard-back edition in 1989. The further collapse of the Soviet empire since then has made a page or two now sound rather odd, but this remains the most purely enjoyable and subversive single volume on the world’s secret servants. RR
[…] was provided by the CIA), and similar sums for the Mafia – in the main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges and politicians also feature in this book (including some interesting Nixon connections). Another very interesting claim that Di Fonzo repeats is that made […]
[…] is strewn with errors, misinterpretations and inventions. Here are some examples. p. 20 ‘Prince Bernhard drew on his Nazi history in corporate management to encourage the “super secret policy-making groups” to call themselves the Bilderbergers after Farben Bilder, in memory of the Farben executives’ initiative to organise Heinrich Himmler’s “Circle of Friends.” ’Actually the […]
[…] the personnel of these groups were war criminals is one of the areas of post-war history which is just beginning to be explored. John Loftus’ The Belarus Secret (43) although primarily about the US use of these Nazi-collaborators, revealed the use by the British intelligence services of the Scottish League for European Freedom as […]
[…] the Communist Party of Great Britain in the Medway Towns 1920-45. Includes useful historical material relating to the Far Right and Left, (particularly the the CPGB), the Secret State and twentieth century British history, including details of specialised libraries of archival material and academic theses on these subjects. Free trade, globalisation and TNCs Maiglomania […]
[PDF file]: […] early 1790s, Founding Father and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton paid hush money to the husband of his 23-year-old mistress to keep his affair with her secret. Eventually Hamilton’s sworn political enemy, Thomas Jefferson, caught wind of the affair and leaked information to a muckraking pamphleteer, James Callender, whose exposé seriously damaged Hamilton’s […]
