[…] economic arguments was that the hand of the Treasury can be seen at work just as much in the retreat from Empire and adoption of a new world role (chief supporter on the block of the US ) as it can in the failure to pay decent pensions, build a proper Channel Tunnel […]
[…] (He is the second contributor to this issue to have been virused recently.) But I had on file this splendid polemic written at the time of the latest outbreak of spy mania to hit this country. Turner’s column proper will begin in the next issue. It must surely rank as one of the silliest […]
[…] John Scarlett was still trying to get ‘false and dubious’ intelligence put in the report of the Iraq Survey Group after the invasion had been successful. () Notes At the National Security Archive site, See, for example, Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘We got it wrong on Iraq WMD, intelligence chiefs finally admit’, The Guardian 8 April […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 1956 IRIS pamphlet, The Communist Solar System, is justified. It may suggest much more, of course. This paragraph of Mayhew’s may point the way to a completely new interpretation of anti-communism in Britain in the 1950s and 60s. Discussing the newspapers which received IRD material, Mayhew (or his amanuensis Smith) comments that ‘At one […]
[…] is one of the best books on the war in Northern Ireland I have read and the best account we have of the loyalist-British state alliance there. Notes 2 My guess is we will never get that, not even if we get some kind of Truth and Reconciliation process there. And there will be […]
[…] is open to anyone who has been active in a Class War group for a minimum of 3 months and who agrees with our aims and principles. New members are introduced gradually into our activities.’ In his view it is the hierarchical, Trotskyist groups which are most open to penetration and manipulation by the […]
[…] Carter administration has taken up Nixon’s demand for an Official Secrets Act which would provide criminal sanctions against future Daniel Ellsbergs. *** John Dean, Blind Ambition ( New York, Simon and Schuster, 1976): p81 cf. Watergate Hearings, Vol.2 p788 U.S. Cong. House Committee on Armed Services, Inquiry into the Alleged Involvement of the Central […]
[…] about as far from being Mata Haris as one could imagine. But when did reality get in the way of a publisher’s idea of a catchy title? Notes My first attempt at assembling these fragments was ‘The British Right – scratching the surface’ in Lobster 12. A description of these groups is in Stephen […]
