[…] a list of putative MI6 officers1 4 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 I published A Who’s Who of the British Secret State, over a thousand names and brief cvs of publicly identified or identifiable secret state employees.1 5 In 1989, publishing such a list seemed worth the […]
[…] ‘The instruction to 20 COY, a Territorial Army body which 1 For non-UK readers, these are a reserve, part-timers. 2 Kim Sengupta, ‘How Thatcher’s election win launched secret war on CND’, The Independent, 7 January 2012. 3 On Newton see Donald Bateman, who knew Newton, wrote about him in Lobster 28, 1994. had focused […]
[PDF file]: […] the public about my role in Psychological Operations, in which I had discretion when deciding what information I could provide to the press; and (c) made improper secret contact with the chair of the disciplinary appeal panel, in order to subvert the fair hearing to which I was entitled. The findings led to Mrs […]
[PDF file]: […] September 1979: “The change of government provides an excellent opportunity for 1 For non-UK readers, these are a reserve, part-timers. Kim Sengupta, ‘How Thatcher’s election win launched secret war on CND’, The Independent, 7 January 2012. 2 On Newton see . Donald Bateman, who knew Newton, wrote about him in Lobster 28, 1994. 3 […]
[PDF file]: […] taken by the SDP steering committee. To make matters worse, Haseler contested the first SDP presidential election, finishing behind Shirley Williams and William Rodgers.1 6 68. ‘A secret shield for the Lady’ D ouglas Eden was the founder and head of the Centre for Study of International Affairs (CSIA) at Middlesex University and organizer […]
[…] and parliament. Tim Farron, Liberal-Democrat MP, at least has grasped half of one of the central issues: ‘When the programs systemically collecting your personal information are so secret that even the cabinet are not aware of their existence, our democratic oversight has rescinded to the point of extinction.’ Except ‘rescinded’ implies it existed in […]
[PDF file]: […] the event. Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of the relevant page or document for us to read. Here’s the list: Robert Landis, the Secret Service agent who recently admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her […]
[PDF file]: […] British governments have felt the need to spy on others, and on their own people, they have tried to keep the very fact of their doing so secret – SIS, MI5 and GCHQ didn’t officially exist until 1989. By contrast, the CIA was set up by Congress, and has always been – formally at […]
[…] than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of the relevant page or document for us to read. Here’s the list: 21 22 7 Robert Landis, the Secret Service agent who recently admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her […]
[…] and/or promotes interesting material on the assassination and related areas. For example on his blog he has recently pointed out a video recording by former Kennedy-era presidential Secret Service officer Abraham Bolden. In this Bolden describes hearing a White House row between JFK and LBJ in 1961 about the then brewing Billie Sol Estes […]
