[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record () is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate reflection of […]
I don’t agree with the BassettMatthews line (‘War and peace plots’, Lobster 51) on (i) Chamberlain’s flight to see Hitler in the Munich cri sis (it was to avert a war, not a coup) and (ii) Philby’s criminal responsibility for prolonging World War Two. The latter point credits far too much influence to one […]
I have been scrutinising in some detail the Curry Report, The Security Service: its problems and organisational adjustments 1908-1945 –– the in-house history of MI5 which was written by John Court (‘Jack’) Curry (1887-?), a senior MI5 officer, during 1944-6. In so doing I have solved one of the great mysteries about Maxwell Knight. Anthony … Read more
[…] I’d seen something like this in Anthony Verrier’s book. There it is on p. 255. Describing the British ‘attempt to sustain counter-revolution in Arabia’, Verrier notes that SIS opposed it ‘because, all other factors apart, it degenerated into a matter of bribes to the wrong people – 30 million, to be exact, laundered through […]
