Shorts Yorkshire Post (14 March ’92) reported the admission by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important … Read more
[…] may even have brought about, the end of the cold war and the shadowy skullduggery that conflict entailed. Author’s footnote to history: This writer was told by Senator Carl Levin (circa 1984) that there would be no congressional hearing into the probability Captain Chun embarked on his mission and 240 innocent passengers perished on […]
JFK: The two Oswalds Anthony Frewin Those of you who missed the two articles by John Armstrong on ‘the two Oswalds’ in recent issues of Probe magazine, don’t despair: Armstrong has rewritten and considerably enlarged them as a two volume DTP work. Armstrong’s finding may be the most significant research breakthrough in years. But we’re … Read more
[…] for the developing eurofascist/ultra right-wing axis could be interesting. Western Goals (UK): Who’s Who Thomas J. Bergen — Vice President (listed once, in October 1989). US citizen, Senator Joe McCarthy Foundation, A.B.N.; article in European Dawn. Sir John Biggs-Davison — Now deceased. Early Western Goals (UK) leaflets claimed his support, though he never became […]
Sean McPhilemy Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1998, $24.95 Sean McPhilemy was the producer of a Channel Four documentary, ‘The Committee’, shown in 1991, which made a series of startling allegations about collusion between the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in the killing of Catholics. The programme — which I … Read more
[…] evidence of fraud in the 2004 American Presidential election continues to grow. And never mind all the stuff from websites like blackbox: we now have reports from Senator Conyer at , and from no less a body than the US government’s General Accounting Office, supporting most of the major charges. A report of the […]
[…] social life’. Meanwhile, around 1975, an honest CIA officer discovered financial documents which named Dr Gottlieb as having been involved in the MKULTRA Program, and in 1977 Senator Edward Kennedy held Congressional hearings into the matter. While watching the proceedings on television, Stan Glickman found reason to believe that Dr Gottlieb was the American […]
Introduction Like most dramatic and unsettling political events, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca temporarily captured the imagination of the world’s media and political pundits. Although the initial public outrage and concern generally faded once it became clear that the Pope would survive, certain individuals and groups … Read more
[…] Former Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Vice chairman, CS First Boston USA Kissinger, Henry A. Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. USA Nunn, Sam Former Senator (D, Georgia) USA Page, Jr., John M. Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region, The World Bank USA Powell, Colin L. Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs […]
Matthew R. Simmons London: Wiley, 2005, h/b Ironic, perhaps, that I finished reviewing this book in Calgary, just south of the largest land-based oil project in the American hemisphere, the Athabasca shale tar sands oil recovery projects. Collectively these will realise investment between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the next ten years. Pipelines … Read more
