[PDF file]: […] and got in touch to query the advert’s provenance, so that one didn’t make it into the light of day. Which sounds exactly like what the British secret state would do to you, if you were on their shit list. Reacting to another wildly exaggerated report, written up for the digestion of senior SDS […]
[PDF file]: […] the Bush administration moved us quickly towards a long planned war 10 11 against Iraq. The rest, as they say, is history. Operation Gladio remained a well-kept secret for decades. In the UK, the 30-year rule – 70 years in the case of bio-weapons expert David Kelly – makes it difficult to make democracy […]
[PDF file]: […] a “clean break” after Westminster was finally galvanised by the MPs’ expenses scandal, and which I knew was reimbursing him for the rent. Nor was there any secret about the fact that for at least part of the period he was also renting out his London home — it is a published fact in […]
[PDF file]: […] suspended sentence for a first degree murder). In Estes’ version the JFK killing is merely one element in the wider scandal, the core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice president Johnson. This is a story about American politics and business and what happens when the hidden business funding is threatened […]
[PDF file]: […] was Gladio’s triumph. Heath was destroyed by the libels revolving around his sexuality and his own loftiness, rooted in insecurity, which rendered him easy prey to ruthless secret service gossip mongers.’ (p. 248) Which is nonsense. The stories about Heath’s sexuality had no coverage and almost no impact. Heath was defeated by Thatcher because […]
[PDF file]: […] 1963) p. 8. 7 See Richard H. Immerman The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998) and John Prados, Presidents’ Secret Wars (Chicago: Elephant, 1996), Cullather (see note 1) and Stephen E. Ambrose, Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1981). 8 […]
[PDF file]: Cryptoscatology Conspiracy Theory as Art Form Robert Guffey Walterville (OR): Trine Day, 2012, $19.95 (USA), p/b This is collection of the author’s essays on secret societies, the Masons and other esoterica, and various ways in which conspiracy theories are interacting with popular American culture. The book’s title is meaningless, as far as I can […]
[PDF file]: […] in Israel, with John Bolton, for example, calling for the US to defund the UNHCR. For the Israel-South Africa connection see Sasha Polakow-Suransky, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2010). 5 6 Terris (see note 4) pp. 241, 255. Norman Finkelstein, Gaza: An Inquest into Its […]
[PDF file]: […] halfway through the book, into the narrative of spies and the mob and hitmen and the theft of the PROMIS software, international spookery, and military developments in secret on an Indian reservation, comes a murderous, drugdealing criminal gang composed of ex-policemen and ex-soldiers. Well now…. Way back when this magazine began, in the days […]
[…] work yet to do.’ Anthony Frewin 20 Remember this? ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ (The Times, 12 October 2008). That million was or would be ultimately forthcoming from Big Tobacco. Just […]
