[…] Tugwell, the first head of Information Policy in Northern Ireland. (See Lobster 16). Tugwell’s activities as a Director of the Canada-South Africa Society are described in Top Secret No 1/89. MARA: Mid-Atlantic Research Associates, Inc. The Socialist International (1985) Robert Moss. Where is Robert Moss these days? The last sighting we have of him […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] were right to have their doubts because Stella Rimington accepted, under cross-examination, that no espionage equipment had been found in my possession: there were no cameras, microdots, secret writing materials, code books, radio transmitters, secret containers (such as false bottomed briefcases), etc. Nothing was found that would indicate I was operating as a professional […]
