[…] don’t know Blum, you should; and this is as good and as entertaining a place to start as any. In effect, we are seeing Blum’s notes for his next book, his thoughts and comments on the American empire since his Rogue State, five years ago; and there has been much to discuss! […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (More Hennessy ‘gossip’ .) 4. Secret Intelligence (Richard Norton-Taylor, G., June 6th 1983) Thatcher Advisers Refuse To Face M.P.’s Questions. (Peter Hennessy T. April 21 1983) The new Select Committees attempted to monitor the intelligence services and question the criteria for classification of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ documents. John Biffen, Leader of the House […]
[…] I’m not at all sure that I accept, as Heidel claims, that all anti-Zionists are anti-Semites. Heidel has also contributed a chapter to the Ideology of the New Right (ed. Ruth Levitas, Oxford, 1986) which is more or less an expansion of this final chapter. My opinions on the current “line” in anti-racist strategies […]
[…] It’s good to define one’s terms, too, but did we really need a definition of the concept of ‘concept’? But these scars of academia are the only real flaw in an ambitious and potentially very useful book. Gill aims to provide the groundwork for an inquiry into the British security intelligence agencies, the Security […]
[…] Gerard Kemp, one of the journalists who had run it in December 1974. In the Sunday Express (4 February ’90) Kemp and Anthony Smith reported (sic) ‘a new ‘dirty tricks’ campaign, involving former Army intelligence officer, Colin Wallace, emerged yesterday.’ Wallace “helped invent” the Ulster Citizens Army. (The rest of the smear, Ron Horn […]
[…] existence. One thing you can’t fault Wrone on is his handling of his source material. It’s all impeccably labelled and described, with 60 pages of fully sourced notes and 16 documentary appendices. (The last of the latter, which I had never heard of before, is an FBI damage-control ‘tickler’ (undated) which includes the stark […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] especially one as ambitious as this, there are bound to be errors. A few I noted at random are: an error in the address for the relatively new civil libertarian group Diversity; and in the entry for Feminists Against Censorship, the book Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures is attributed to the wrong ‘authors’ (it […]
[…] the CIA. ‘You know that The Paris Review was Peter Matthiessen’s cover,’ he said. ‘He is haunted by the CIA.’ I know for a fact that the New York Times had outed Matthiessen in an article published 25 December 1977 by John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster. (1) George heard every word but […]
