[…] British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster 9 and Lobster 10. EASTON, Air Comdr. Sir James Alfred KCMG (1956), CB (1952), CBE (1945) B.11/2/08 1926 RAF 1929-32 […]
[…] Government to cease their collaboration with the Americans in either facilitating rendition or torture. But involvement in human rights abuses, torture, and detention without trial are not new instruments of the British State. Thousands of people in Africa, Asia and the Far East lost their lives in anti-colonial struggles; while in Northern Ireland there […]
The real story of the Budget is not to be found in the striking figures concerning the government’s borrowing requirement. These figures are symptomatic of a much deeper crisis which is rooted in Britain’s economic history over a 30 year period. The fundamental problem facing the UK is the shrinkage of the manufacturing sector. […]
[…] action that resulted from this refusal is still working its way through the US legal system. Why the refusal? As Michael Phayer makes clear, in his fascinating new book, the Vatican bank still holds the Ustasa gold looted by the Croatian fascists during the Second World War.(1) Ante Pavelic’s Ustasa regime was responsible for […]
The Information Research Department Andrew Defty Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2004, £23.99, p/b Thinking about this book, I wondered why people like me have been so interested in IRD for the last 30 years. There are two reasons, I think. The first is that way back in the 1970s, when information about the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] pp. 217-243. The assassination dilemma is addressed in a special issue of the University of Richmond Law Review. With articles bearing titles such as ‘Proposal for a new Executive Order on assassination’ and ‘It’s not really “assassination”: legal and moral implications of intentionally targeting terrorists and aggressor-state regime elites’, it’s not difficult to see […]
[…] for example, that the House of Windsor controls the world’s drug traffic, organised the assassination of John F. Kennedy etc. etc. – but the headline of his New Solidarity‘s story on the recent Sunday Times-Buckingham Palace ‘leak’ story gives a flavour of his delusions: “Will Dope Lobby’s Queen Abdicate?”.(1) At that London launch of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] production of munitions. It even referred to ‘Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scott’s view, have refused licenses or the export of machine tools if it had known about the contents of […]
