[…] curious. (b) Splinter Factor p. 163 says: ‘Meanwhile. the CIA had been working on the Clementis case. In October 1949 Clementis attended the U.N. General Assembly in New York and immediately a two-pronged attack, designed to persuade him to seek political asylum, was launched by the CIA through its State Department outlets and by […]
[…] the USA, and The Black Sun actually claims to be the fourth in the series. Montauk is a small town at the eastern end of Long Island, New York. Before 1941 it hosted the H.Q. of the German-American Bund. After 1941 Long Island was a landing point for several German spies ferried across the […]
[…] planted in the media by Information Policy, the Army psy-ops unit in Northern Ireland in which Wallace worked, we are told: ‘The propaganda war continued with a new committee chaired by Michael Cudlipp and staffed by representatives of the North Ireland Office, the RUC and the army; including Jeremy Rail-ton, then head of Information […]
[…] Once the papers have printed it the damage is done. Even when the facts come out, the original image is the one that sticks.’ (p. 238) Miller notes that, ‘The day after every single British national newspaper and television news programme had given their readers and viewers a false account of what had happened […]
[…] essays are everywhere; and now they’re mostly political. As well as The Last Empire there is also Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta ( New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/ Nation Books, 2002, $11.95) and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace which, I read in The Spokesman 77, contains essays previously published in […]
[…] see the Bulgarian (i.e. Soviet) connection. Ledeen is one of the most prolific of the Georgetown Centre for Strategic and International Studies’ roster of apologists for the new Cold War: a professional liar, in short. His piece includes this, for example: “In the U.S. not only an explicit Presidential but Congressional approval is required […]
[…] loyalist paramilitaries. These two factors led to the Provisionals’ readiness to abandon the armed struggle on the right terms, and seem to have convinced Trimble that a new game was underway. One should not underestimate the radical nature of his transformation. When James Molyneux stood down as Ulster Unionist leader in August 1995, Trimble […]
[…] cupboard seemed a good idea. But these days, dozens of books about our ‘secret services’ later, the ‘Secret’ Intelligence Service flaunting its bureaucratic muscle in that shiny, new building on the Thames, we have intelligence stories everywhere. Mere collating of intelligence material seems less interesting – as does the publishing of names. Which might […]
[…] the world from America but has been unable to save the Labour Party from the machinations of a relatively small number of misguided and/or shyster careerist politicians. Notes 2 A short summary of Corfe’s philosophy is at 3 Corfe writes of American culture as if there was just one when there are many cultures […]
[…] No Philip Agee, he! I wonder if Shayler thought things they would be better under Labour and he wouldn’t get clobbered? It isn’t clear from this account. Notes 2 See for example the article criticising MI6 by former British ambassador, Peter Heap, ‘The truth behind the MI6 facade’ in The Guardian 2 October 2003. […]
