[…] he would be likely to express them.”‘ In fact there is a quite an interesting account here, not only of the business of being an agent for SIS – presumably it is SIS, though other agencies are possible; and the author never quite resolves this – but also of the University of Aberystwyth, its […]
[…] JIC (Middle East) and JIC (Far East) have disappeared.’ (24) That they have is an unnoticed national scandal. The ‘approved’ will be able to concoct whatever back-history SIS chooses. (25) Not that, according to Defence Secretary Hoon, a back-history is of any consequence. Facing a courteous, articulate predominantly Arab audience – and profoundly out […]
[…] been given a five-year exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act. (‘Navy Cleared To Use a Sonar System Despite Fears for Whales’ at < www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1010-2002Jul15.html >) Ransome SIS not KGB In in ‘Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet Secret agent?’,(8) Andrew Rosthorn rebutted the charge made by Professor Christopher […]
[…] David Armstrong and Joseph Trento, the authors of another book on this subject, America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise. See also the 2005 account by David Rose – yes, that David Rose, ex SIS asset Rose – in Vanity Fair at On Rose and SIS see ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 54.
[…] from this article: “England’s action may undermine the prospects of a European Security Conference and may deter talks concerning balanced armament limitations.” Could that be the ba sis of long-range plans of English-American leaders concerning the NATO aggressive bloc? Question We ask that you present some facts about the BIS’s undermining activities during the […]
[…] on unofficial diplomatic missions in the late 1930s, and that his reports went to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and to Stewart Menzies, Deputy to the Chief of SIS, Hugh Sinclair (until the latter’s death in November 1939 when Menzies took over). Another of his supporters in the government was R. A. Butler, junior Minister […]
US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat This article presents an analy sis of United States involvement in the coup in Fiji. The authors support the demands made in Washington by deposed Fijian Prime Minister, Dr Bavadra, for a Congressional investigation of American involvement. Published by Wellington Confidential, PO. Box 9034, Wellington, New Zealand […]
[…] been quoted as saying that Retinger was ‘suspected of being in close touch not so much with British politics as with certain of its discrete institutions’. Presumably SIS. See Korbonski p. 20. Later American participants included Robert MacNamara, US Secretary of Defence under Kennedy and Johnson (earlier chair of the Ford Motor Company, and […]
[…] Egyptians who had planned to turn the Middle East over to the ‘commies’. His voice trailing off, he finally sank in his chair and passed out.” (empha sis added). Perhaps these ‘teams’ were part of the complicated plot which Anthony Verrier talks of in his Through the Looking Glass (London 1983). According to Verrier, […]
[…] but it is virtually guaranteed to be so if the legislators refuse to talk to those with knowledge of ‘improper deeds’. As for the British system: with SIS, the authors tell us: ‘a Foreign Office advisor….runs the rule over proposed operations before they are mounted or – if they are particularly sensitive – submitted […]
