Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] always a give-away and can be a pleasing indication of progress. So, for example, in Professor 123 Winter 2010 Jeffery’s reference work, MI6, the history of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 – 1949, there is an example of the huge lobbying pressure that the educator – a crucial spook role – would have been […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] a sound beam surely would not expand a battery. *new* Dallas again More from Robert Morrow. He reproduces a recent email from Abraham Bolden, the first black Secret Service agent, who was on the White House or . 1 1 detail with JFK.2 Around the time of the assassination Bolden saw things he should […]

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[…] a sound beam surely would not expand a battery. *new* Dallas again More from Robert Morrow. He reproduces a recent email from Abraham Bolden, the first black Secret Service agent, who was on the White House or . 1 1 detail with JFK.2 Around the time of the assassination Bolden saw things he should […]

Well, how did we get here?

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[PDF file]: […] to one of selective intervention; and also to a major reflationary policy….’2 0 The ‘brooding in the car’ story was a fiction. Armstrong had been chairing a secret Whitehall economics committee, created by Heath, that had been in existence for a year.21 The committee has been set up to devise a way of creating […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] claiming that Saddam thwarted and resisted international weapons inspectors in order to bluff the world into believing that he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] learned that Wallace was being expelled from Northern Ireland (and possibly faced disciplinary action for ‘leaking’) he wrote to a ‘Mr Joy’ in a letter headed ‘ Secret and personal’. This is part of what he said: ‘ . . . like the Brigadier, I considered Wallace the most valuable member of Army Information […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] funds, weapons and drugs; covert operations and support in multiple forms to death squads, ruthless dictatorships and the orchestration of multiple coups d’état; networks of torture centres, secret body dumps and crematoria; the targetting of popular and civic oppositional movements; clearing indigenous peoples from their land – many buried in mass graves; punitive economic […]

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