[PDF file]: […] allies in Europe and the nature of the viper at the bosom (the US). The analogy that comes to mind is leaving the frying pan for the security of the fire. Narcissism Grey mentions the grandiosity and super confidence of Brexiteers, the irrationality of many of their ideas, and their lack of definition of […]
[PDF file]: […] of the nation’s cities, capital punishment had long been abolished and marriage was open to gays as well as heterosexuals. These changes, along with an economic in security compounded by the financial crash of 2007-9, led many Conservative voters to seek lost certainties and find in them a refuge from an unpredictable and capricious […]
[PDF file]: […] there. On the day of the assassination, Elena Garro de Paz, the primary source of the story, was whisked away to the Hotel Vermont by a Mexican security officer Manuel Calvillo, who kept her incommunicado for a week ‘for her own protection’. In contrast, Sylvia Duran was twice arrested and violently interrogated by Mexican […]
[PDF file]: […] headline in Lobster only because Howard and I had been invited by the BBC, one afternoon in Leeds in 2011, to hear the former director-general of the Security Service , Eliza Manningham-Buller, giving a Reith lecture on security. When I commented that twenty News of the World journos had already admitted phone hacking but […]
[PDF file]: […] but had been refused permission from ‘on-high’. Lee felt his efforts to follow the international trails of the British LSD underground were being frustrated by an ‘establishment’/ security services ‘cover-up’. Lee’s book, Operation Julie: How the Undercover Police Team Smashed the World’s Greatest Drugs Ring, was published in 1978. Events the following year seemed […]
[PDF file]: […] the administration a completely free hand in the destruction of America’s enemies. JSOC was, at this time, ‘the most closely guarded secret force in the US national security apparatus’. It only went public after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Scahill explores JSOC’s record during the occupation of Iraq. Here the US Army found […]
[PDF file]: […] is also the person who wrote in the 1977 notorious ‘Gable memo’: “I have given the names I have acquired to be checked out by British/ French security services, especially the French and German connections, and the South American stuff is being checked by Geoffrey StewartSmith’s institute”. It is argued by Gable’s defenders that […]
[PDF file]: […] especially during its war in Vietnam. The core concepts upon which what has been called a ‘revolution factory’ are based can be found in Sharp’s book National Security through Civilian-based Defense (Omaha, Nebraska: Association for Transarmament Studies, 1970). Of course to understand Sharp’s exercise in reverse engineering it is helpful to read Douglas Valentine, […]
[PDF file]: […] astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell and – as revealed in Lobster 77 – Bobby Ray Inman, then a Vice Admiral. Inman was later appointed director of the National Security Agency (NSA) by President Carter himself. Approached for comment on this story, Jimmy Carter initially dodged the issue with an irrelevant response. He subsequently declined to […]
[PDF file]: […] most noted by his absence. When he eventually surfaced, and was asked for an explanation he apologised and stated that he had been working undercover, for the security services, in the BNP. Nobody believed him. Well we wouldn’t, would we? And perhaps that’s the problem with too many people in UK politics today – […]
