Robert Parry Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1993 ISBN 1-879823-08-X This is an account both of the October Surprise story and of the author’s attempts over two years to stand it up. This works at several levels. The first is an intelligible recounting of the main features of the developing October Surprise allegations. He […]
[…] out his otherwise over simple conclusions. It is remarkable that a book as good as that written by Bryan Clough should only appear through a minor publisher. Notes There is a theory that Kent had begun working for the Soviets in 1938 in Moscow and this being the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact […]
[…] old single tribunals continue to exist for cases that were already being considered before October 2 2000. Sir Michael Burton was appointed in June 2000 as the new President of the Interception of Communications Tribunal for five years. He has also been appointed Vice President of the IPT. See footnote, RIPA s65(4)(5)(7). The IPT […]
[…] going to a lot of trouble to get this nonsense circulated. A free sample should be forthcoming on request from “Friends of the UK” PO Box 76D, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4BB, UK. In the US from PO Box 597004, Department 608, San Francisco, CA 94164-9004. Coming In From The Cold: British Propaganda and […]
[…] threats after 9/11’. Or take Stephen Holmes, a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and research director at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law, who wrote: ‘….we can safely say that the following jumble of motives, seizing different actors at different times, contributed to the […]
[…] load 42 Leyland buses for Havana, mostly as deck cargo, before sailing back down the Thames estuary that night. On the same day, the captain of the new 10,032 ton Japanese freighter Yamashiro Maru received orders to sail for London, empty in ballast, from the River Schelde in Belgium. The two ships were bound […]
Larry Tye New York: Owl Books, 2002, pb $16.00 ISBN 0 8050 6789 2 If Edward Bernays hadn’t existed, Edward Bernays would have invented him. And in fact this is more or less what happened. This is the long-awaited paperback edition of the first full-length biography of Bernays, who, like President Harry Truman, […]
[…] CPGB’s industrial department (which I assume was the recipient of much of it) and its relations with the rest of the Party. There is interesting (but unsourced) new material on the link-man with Moscow, Reuben Falber, which shows him taking charge of the Party’s secret money in the 1930s when he created the hitherto […]
[…] crashed with alarming regularity while doing low-level bombing missions for which they were not designed. This current British focus on little groups of ‘dangerous men’ is nothing new. Throughout the 1950s and 60s British popular culture presented World War Two as won by superior British know-how (bouncing bombs), and little bands of brave warriors […]
[…] Knight was a leading member of the British Fascists and seems to have colluded with them against the left while he was an intelligence officer. Professor Andrew notes that an MI5 agent, James McGuirk Hughes (whose name Andrew misspells), became the British Union of Fascists’ head of intelligence, presenting this as proof of MI5’s […]
