[…] Tugwell, the first head of Information Policy in Northern Ireland. (See Lobster 16). Tugwell’s activities as a Director of the Canada-South Africa Society are described in Top Secret No 1/89. MARA: Mid-Atlantic Research Associates, Inc. The Socialist International (1985) Robert Moss. Where is Robert Moss these days? The last sighting we have of him […]
Books The Secret War: an account of the sinister activities along the border involving Gardai, RUC, British Army and SAS Patsy McArdle (Mercier Press, Dublin 1984) McArdle is a journalist with Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland. Journalists sometimes write really good books, but McArdle’s is a stinker, little more than a jumbled collection of […]
Books Secret Contenders Melvin Beck (Sheridan Square Publications, US 1984) The CIA Christmas party of 1958 found 48 year old all-American boy, Melvin Beck, getting the offer of overseas work with Clandestine Services. He “struck like a hungry bass” and landed in Havana in 1959, just as the first Russian freighter was arriving. Fairly […]
[…] 30 year ago and more, we’ve already got a much better perspective on this project and associated research. Despite Thomas talking of receiving 20,000 pages of top secret material and interviewing key people there’s just not an awful lot of fresh material. Several of Thomas’s books have been made into films and this might […]
[…] context for British intelligence, as a framework for country-by-country comparisons it works well. Gill uses a four-layer model of the state and society: first there is the secret state, then the executive (the government of the day plus its civil service). Next comes ‘other government agencies’ — a category including the courts as well […]
[…] discussed here. As one intelligence source commented on RV programs: ‘In the historical files there are also a number of customer evaluations from the likes of the Secret Service, NSA, the Military Services, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and ironically the CIA, reporting (occasionally even in rather glowing terms) the usefulness of remote viewing as […]
[…] files. As the World War II era clerks retired from government service during the late 1960s and 1970s, they took with them the institutional memory of Top Secret operations which had been conducted only twenty years previously. With some chagrin, a CIA official has confided that the institutional memory of one section of the […]
[…] Chamberlain. (1) ‘IPG had sought at every level of government to convince the governments of France, Italy, Austria and Spain that, despite official pronouncements, Britain’s actual if secret foreign policy was to keep out of all European conflicts in order to give a free hand to Hitler and Mussolini against the Soviet Union.’ (2) […]
[…] the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of Allende were released, including CIA documents recording US covert operations between 1968 and […]
[…] and gooey stuff and slippery stuff – conceals the real agenda, the development of various form of energy weapons. There was a big conference – billed ‘ secret US only’ – in June this year, a ‘Detailed review of directed energy warfare’. The final session consisted of presentations of work in progress within the […]
