[…] to authority: an experimental view (London: Tavistock Publications, 1974) Alfred W. McCoy, A question of torture: CIA interrogation, from the cold war to the war on terror (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2006) p. 47. See also David H. Price, ‘Buying a piece of anthropology. Part 1: Human ecology and unwitting anthropological research for […]
[…] using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem to show that the Soviets k new in 1953 that the allegations were false and the ‘evidence’ had been fabricated. The allegations were the climax to a long series of charges, started before […]
[…] type in Bernardo De Torres you find it does not appear. In fact, further research shows that my biography is not in the Google index. You can test this out by typing in a passage from this page in the Google search-box. The page is just not in there. My whole website is indexed […]
[…] a dollar-laden future as a World Statesman, writing something has proved to be irresistible. In Lobster 33 and subsequent issues, Lobster’s writers gave a view of the New Labour thing as it began. We got much of it right; but what we didn’t foresee, and what now strikes me most powerfully, is what a […]
[…] extensively from David McKittrick’s September 1987 rejection of the Nairac claim in The Independent, but makes no mention of Duncan Campbell’s rebuttal of McKittrick’s claims in the New Statesman later the same month. The jobs Holroyd held then lost after his return from Rhodesia in 1981 is for Dillon not the sign of MI5 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of ‘stopping’ Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. ( New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike her predecessors, Mrs Thatcher had maintained an interest in intelligence matters while in opposition. Through journalist Chapman Pincher, Maurice Oldfield of […]
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
[…] in Lobster, has uncovered a fascinating mass of information relating to covert cross-border operations by the Ulster security forces, and the subsequent “shoot-to-kill” inquiry conducted by the new retired Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, John Stalker. Basing himself largely on the evidence of Captain Fred Holroyd, Doherty unravels a whole series of covert […]
[…] At a meeting on censorship! To cries from the audience of ‘Let him speak’, Harold Smith finally had his say. To date neither the Observer nor its new companion, the Guardian, have found Harold Smith’s account of the rigging of the pre-independence elections in Nigeria, by the Brits, to be worthy of interest. (See […]
