[…] everyone circles, puzzled, but certain that it must mean something. Eventually I gave up trying to make sense of the jumble of names and dates….’ In this new version Young, Walter Walker and all that has gone. Colin Wallace is not mentioned; Wright gets one reference in the introduction. Instead of redoing Pencourt as […]
[…] 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 whole book. While Stafford has many interesting things to say, he has effectively surrendered to the Churchill myth. What we have here is a Churchillian history of the Secret State that glorifies both the man and the institution. Notes Newsinger’s Mussadiq is my Mossadeq. There appears to be no concensus on this – ed.
[…] 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.. […]
[…] The crime syndicates used secret codes which were based on biblical or religious themes. (Daily Telegraph 28/6/83) These were placed between the pages of copies of the New Testament which the nun gave to prisoners. The prison chaplain, Mariano Santini, was arrested in the 1983 Camorra round-up.(Times 18 June 1983). While Cutulo was in […]
[…] sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing it. While non-attributable briefings […]
[…] systems worldwide including Carnivore (see below) and SORM (Russian FSB’s internet surveillance project); plus extensive links on electronic surveillance. The original source for the first Echelon report (New Statesman 12 August 1988) is revealed as Margaret Newsham, who worked at Menwith Hill from 1978 onwards as a software sytem support co-ordinator. Newsham talks about […]
[…] the time and an account can be found in Bunyan’s The Political Police in Britain. In an ‘expose’ we can surely expect to learn much that is new. On the contrary, Murray is both coy and vague. Who were the British industrialists who established a trade union monitoring service in 1972? Where did the […]
