[…] alleged US use of chemical weapons during ‘Desert Storm’. Next issue, David: no room in this one. The appearance of Stephen Dorril’s massive and impressive book on SIS — reviewed below – set me thinking about the direction Lobster has taken. When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing […]
[…] the years when Crozier was engaged full-time in psychological operations, running a large network in the UK. Forum World Features in which, ‘with the full agreement of SIS would deal directly with CIA personnel’ (p. 71), was succeeded by the Institute for the Study of Conflict. After Sir Dennis Greenhill, Permanent Under-Secretary at the […]
[…] of his in Punch – issue 93 in the present, post Al Fayed, takeover series – he comments on the hypocrisy of his persecution while the former SIS officer with the pseudonym Alan Judd, gets access to the diary of early MI6 chief Mansfield Cummings: ‘I know Alan Judd’s real name, but I can’t […]
[…] about the source or his ‘intelligence’. As Lord Butler commented dryly in his report: ‘It would have been more appropriate for senior managers in the DIS and SIS to have made arrangements for the intelligence to be shown to DIS experts rather than making their own judgements on its significance’. (7) By keeping Jones […]
[…] its personnel and their positions of influence in the US administration, NGOs, media, Congress and so forth. But they do it within the framework of Quigley’s the sis on the Round Table – hence their name. This is the primary Quigley site in the Web as far as I know. (http://www. geocities. com/CapitolHill/2807) Much […]
[…] with these key questions: how is it that the super-rationalist West, with all of the massive resources of the CIA, TIARA (Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities) and SIS, were completely unable to stop a few guys with Stanley knives flying jet planes into the World Trade Centre? How have the security and intelligence forces […]
When I commented on the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor the sis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To […]
[…] in death: the post-war survival of the Special Operations Executive, 1945-51′. Aldrich shows how, despite the organisation’s formal demise, sections of SOE survived to be absorbed into SIS to play a part in the anti-Soviet operations of the early years of Cold War 1 — the small-scale British version of the conversion of the […]
[…] governments. ‘Brand America’ has been under pressure for some time. This could have been averted had reputation management been taken seriously, the potential risks evaluated and cri sis strategies rehearsed. Instead, blinded by commercial and military power and the arrogance that goes with it, the US executive had no sight of developing, sometimes conjoined […]
Despite ‘coalition’ forces now being engaged in a guerilla war (which no-one seems to have foreseen), analy sis of the information war which accompanied the invasion of Iraq has begun to appear. Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Collins, head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a […]
