[…] 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 […]
[…] contact Ramiro de la Fe Perez. (109) One year later junta Ambassador Mario Arnelo, reportedly the organiser of the Chilean Nazi party, appeared on a Union City, New Jersey platform with three persons who would later become prime suspects in the murder of Orlando Letelier; Guillermo Novo, Dionisio Suarez and Alvin Ross. (110) In […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] from 1947 to the mid 1980s, this is also a history of British and Labour politics in that period; and Pearce has omitted too much, too obviously. Notes 1 Co-author of CIA and the Labour Movement (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1977) and pioneer in the exposure of IRD’s role in post-war politics. 2 He is currently […]
Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson D. Jablow Hershman New Jersey: Barricade, 2002, $27.95 Colin Challen MP I tend to the view, presented succinctly in Who Shot JFK?, (10) that whoever assassinated Kennedy did so with the objective of installing LBJ as President. The tantalising question that arises is: did […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] from the US-dominated global surveillance system. (I don’t take seriously recent newspapers stories about the UK creating a defensive missile screen and building – or acquiring – new aircraft carriers.) He looks at the post-war Anglo-American relationship, and the initial experience of the Labour Government since it took office last year and shows that […]
[…] was pointed at Libya.(7) The demonisation of Libya, justified or not, was complete. ‘The bullet was not fired from the embasssy.’ We can now turn to the new Channel Four analysis of the key events in St James’s Square. The combined evidence of many distinguished experts, including Professor Bernard Knight, one of the Home […]
[…] for the delivery in 1952 of $5 million worth of railway stock and machine tools”. (88) In this period Skorzeny lectured at Spanish universities on the ‘ new warfare’ that would turn to such techniques as ‘assassinations and kidnappings’. (89) His offer to recruit a foreign legion of ex-Nazis to aid the Americans in […]
