US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat This article presents an analy sis of United States involvement in the coup in Fiji. The authors support the demands made in Washington by deposed Fijian Prime Minister, Dr Bavadra, for a Congressional investigation of American involvement. Published by Wellington Confidential, PO. Box 9034, Wellington, New Zealand […]
[…] been quoted as saying that Retinger was ‘suspected of being in close touch not so much with British politics as with certain of its discrete institutions’. Presumably SIS. See Korbonski p. 20. Later American participants included Robert MacNamara, US Secretary of Defence under Kennedy and Johnson (earlier chair of the Ford Motor Company, and […]
[…] Egyptians who had planned to turn the Middle East over to the ‘commies’. His voice trailing off, he finally sank in his chair and passed out.” (empha sis added). Perhaps these ‘teams’ were part of the complicated plot which Anthony Verrier talks of in his Through the Looking Glass (London 1983). According to Verrier, […]
[…] but it is virtually guaranteed to be so if the legislators refuse to talk to those with knowledge of ‘improper deeds’. As for the British system: with SIS, the authors tell us: ‘a Foreign Office advisor….runs the rule over proposed operations before they are mounted or – if they are particularly sensitive – submitted […]
Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record () is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate reflection of […]
I don’t agree with the BassettMatthews line (‘War and peace plots’, Lobster 51) on (i) Chamberlain’s flight to see Hitler in the Munich cri sis (it was to avert a war, not a coup) and (ii) Philby’s criminal responsibility for prolonging World War Two. The latter point credits far too much influence to one […]
[…] no power in the West or in the elites that are allied to the West that is now not wedded to some variation of the inevitability/desirability the sis. The security services of the West are now trained to see anti-globalisers, nationalists and socialists as all equal threats to security. They may often wear suits […]
[…] the years when Crozier was engaged full-time in psychological operations, running a large network in the UK. Forum World Features in which, ‘with the full agreement of SIS would deal directly with CIA personnel’ (p. 71), was succeeded by the Institute for the Study of Conflict. After Sir Dennis Greenhill, Permanent Under-Secretary at the […]
[…] alleged US use of chemical weapons during ‘Desert Storm’. Next issue, David: no room in this one. The appearance of Stephen Dorril’s massive and impressive book on SIS — reviewed below – set me thinking about the direction Lobster has taken. When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing […]
[…] about the source or his ‘intelligence’. As Lord Butler commented dryly in his report: ‘It would have been more appropriate for senior managers in the DIS and SIS to have made arrangements for the intelligence to be shown to DIS experts rather than making their own judgements on its significance’.(7) By keeping Jones out […]
