[…] 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 […]
[…] countries for “spying activities” since 1980; and, in a second article, describes the power struggle between the CIA, Pentagon and State Department over the NSC and its new head, Frank Carlucci. Two other articles on American parapolitics are reprinted from American publications – on Vernon Walters from Covert Action Information Bulletin, and on John […]
[…] Congress, Lipsey helped found the British American Project for the Successor Generation, a US-funded network to revive Atlanticism. He is now Lord Lipsey, a key figure in New Labour with its end of ideology, Third Way ‘pragmatism’. His network of influence is just one of many of continuing significance in the political and intellectual […]
[…] I got mine through amazon.com; and using the cheapest from of delivery, it cost $23.42 in all – about £16.00 – less than the advertised cover price. Notes Revealed recently in the Sunday Telegraph. See Lobster 35. In his 1992 Big Boys’ Rules (Faber and Faber), Mark Urban referred to the unit as the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] national controversy with his news stories linking the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras to the rise of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles and elsewhere. His gripping new book, richly researched and documented, deserves an even wider audience and discussion. The book profits from corroborating CIA and police records that have been released in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] creating ‘a burning sensation similar to a hot light bulb pressed against one’s flesh’. A Marine colonel said the device is intended to ‘influence motivational behaviour’. The New York Times report of this on 2 March described this as a crowd-dispersal weapon and Colonel George Fenton of the Marine Corps, Director of the Department […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] And he was killed in that centre of the oil culture, Dallas, on his way to make a speech at the International Trade Mart….. whose head, in New Orleans, was a man named Clay Shaw……. Probe and The Fourth Decade (TFD) formerly The Third Decade (TTD) were outstanding founts of information of this ilk.. […]
