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The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

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[PDF file]: […] 1951, a secret group named the Anti-Communist (Home) Committee was established, comprising representatives from the Foreign Office, Treasury, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour, and Security Service (MI5). Chaired by cabinet secretary Norman Brook, the committee’s objective was ‘to keep communist activities in this country under review and to recommend what counter-action […]

Hoodwinked by the Department of Health? Frank Dobson and the 1997 Jimmy Savile report

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[PDF file]: […] a continuation of ‘A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election’ in Lobster 73.1 What happened to the external management review of Broadmoor high security hospital that Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell had commissioned, once the Conservative Party had left office? The report was sent to his office in April 1997, shortly […]

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[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.12 And the Foreign Affairs review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its […]

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[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like […]

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[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

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[PDF file]: […] stunned the European political establishment by voting in a referendum against the Maastricht Treaty, signed earlier in the year and providing for both political union (enhanced defence, security and other cooperation) and monetary union, the creation of a single currency, unnamed at that time. Giving the lie to the idea that the European Community […]

The economic crisis continues

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[PDF file]: […] mattered were warned. They just didn’t want to hear the warnings. ‘On April 17, 2007, famed short-seller Jim Chanos and other hedge fund managers met under tight security at the World Bank in Washington for the G-8 meeting. Chanos and Paul Singer briefed prominent policy officials about the growing financial instability. They gave irrefutable […]

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[…] there is no source. Barron – who died in 2005 – was the American equivalent of our Chapman Pincher: a man used to run stories for the security and intelligence people. So Mitrokhin’s co-author Professor Christopher Andrew has tarted-up Mitrohkin’s documents with something as crappy as an unsourced allegation in Barron. Dear oh dear. […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] extraordinary extent to which the Colombian cartel has targeted Russia was published by King’s College London followed by an invitation to a Seminar in Virginia on International Security Surikov ’95, www.iprog.ru/cast/?id=8 where he met Fritz Ermarth of the CIA) and — this part I got first from my poetic intuition -was recruited both for […]

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