[…] neutral – could give the UK. Kent had also requested a move to the US Embassy in Berlin and, one presumes, would have taken his collection of secret diplomatic correspondence with him had he been allowed to take up this position.(1) The Right Club In March 1940 Kent showed some of his cables to […]
[…] 30 year ago and more, we’ve already got a much better perspective on this project and associated research. Despite Thomas talking of receiving 20,000 pages of top secret material and interviewing key people there’s just not an awful lot of fresh material. Several of Thomas’s books have been made into films and this might […]
[…] on a spy who betrayed his state’, Democracy and Security, 5 (1), January 2009, pp. 51–63.) Richard Norton-Taylor and Chris McGreal, ‘MI5 and MI6 unable to stop Secret War’s publication’, The Guardian, 15 April 2009; Neil Millard, ‘MI5 fails to block book of secret wars’, The Evening Standard, 15 April 2009; Liz Thomson, ‘JR […]
Secret Nazi Technology which could have changed the course of WWII Gary Hyland and Anton Gill, Headline Books, 1998, £18.99 Thirty years ago schoolboys built model aeroplanes. The most common and popular were, for the Airfix generation, the main combat types of the last great war – Spitfires, Me109s, Mustangs, Zeros, Lancasters, Flying […]
[…] the Party leadership expose left-wing MPs links with the Soviets – presuming that there were any – for the same reason that they did not expose the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB. They wanted to retain the crypto-communist weapon; they wanted Labour MPs to continue contact with the Soviet bloc; they wanted a […]
[…] unit in Belfast in the 1970s. Wallace would take journalists, especially foreign journalists whose knowledge of British politics was limited, into back room and show them ‘ secret documents’ – some genuine, some forgeries – which they could read but not copy, in the hope that the more naive of them would publish what […]
[…] and videotape of this important event apparently vanished. The Warren Commission itself tried unsuccessfully to locate the footage and was told by James J. Rowley of the Secret Service that not only could the film not be found but that the transcripts also were no longer in existence (see Mark Lane’s A Citizen’s Dissent […]
[…] Lashmar and James Oliver Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK) £25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book – perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch’s British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been […]
[…] government will start requiring industry to provide phones and computers equipped with it. This chip contains encryption algorithms that can be broken by two halves of a secret master key. The idea is that someone with a warrant will then go to each of two agencies to get the portion of the key in […]
[…] or still ‘radicals’ agree on, but one of them would be that short of some exceptional life-threatening situation it is not possible to co-operate with the British secret state. My enemy’s enemy Finally, why did Searchlight attack Larry for a tiny little fragment in Tribune? Why not for the much bigger piece in Lobster […]
