View from Bridge 87

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[…] can extrapolate a little from Holt’s account and see how the pieces fit. The plan for which he provided technical assistance was an attempt to sabotage Kennedy’s (secret) policy of slowly building détente with Cuba. The fake assassination attempt would fire the Mannlicher-Carcano round through the smooth bore rifle at Kennedy and attribute this […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] just after WW2 and funded, it appears, by the road transport lobby of the time.13 From 1971-74 Martin’s publications were regularly advertised in John Loftus, The Belarus Secret (London, 1983) pp. 165, 205. This has been remaindered in the UK and in kicking around for 30 or 40p. One of the most important books […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

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[PDF file]: […] British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 James Smith Cambridge University Press, 2013, £55.00, h/b John Newsinger Smith’s book is an immensely valuable preliminary examination of the British secret state’s surveillance of ‘the left-wing writers and artists’ of George Orwell’s generation. As the author makes clear, the context was very different from the United States. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] what we did in Afghanistan and Iraq, but how does removing a brutal 11 At or . 12 or 13 On-line at or . 14 In his Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2012). dictatorship that the people of that country most certainly did not support, giving them a United […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] experiences in politics/intelligence and parlayed this into a subscription-based newsletter which purported to show the world as it really How far we have come: Bilderberg was once secret and now there is a vast collection of their reports and minutes at or . 3 or The same clip, complete with ‘audio simulation’, is played […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] a congenial external environment. Its outline became clear during the early 1970s, when a programme for international economic reform See Kevin John McEvoy, ‘Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)’, Contemporary British History, Volume 35 (2021), p. 603. Historians of modern Chile and the covert operations of the British state have […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] to ignore all the sworn affidavits and are trying another tack CSIS’s lawyers are trying to persuade the Court to allow anonymous personal testimony (and affidavits) in secret. In other words secret testimony where I wouldn’t know who had testified, or what their testimony was. This is kangaroo court stuff. Apparently I will be […]

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

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[PDF file]: […] Paul Ozorak Barnsley (UK): Pen & Sword Books, 2012. xx + 364 pp. Illustrated, notes, references, index, £25.00. It was the ‘Spies for Peace’ pamphlet, Danger! Official Secret RSG6, that was distributed on the 1963 Aldermaston March, and mailed to the media (some 4000 copies in total were printed), that first alerted us slumbering […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

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[PDF file]: […] into the US Marine Corps. He served at bases in San Diego, the Philippines and Atsugi, Japan, where he worked in radar and communications at a top secret U2 base. He was trained in the Russian language before being given an early discharge and then defected to the Soviet Union. In the USSR he […]

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