[…] exposed by its editor-in-chief, Mr Jacques Verges, as ‘agent provocateur’. Mr Gibson then married a white woman in London, had broadcast on the African Service of the BBC, had worked for CBS news in New York and Agence France Presse in Paris as a specialist in African affairs.” (pp431-2) There were stories, disinformation, linking […]
[…] documentary The Power of Nightmares. His remarks were nowhere to be seen or heard when BBC1 broadcast highlights of the ceremony later that evening. (Anon., ‘Row as BBC cuts Bafta speech’, The Guardian 18 April 2005) These include former Tory Defence Secretary and Foreign Secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind (non executive Chairman); ex-CIA operative, Jerry […]
[…] ground and if anyone has some on the IPLO, I would be interested to see it. Her talk that night is available, incidentally, in printed form, from BBC Educational Developments, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS. No price is given on my copy. One variant of which is the ‘Kurdish extremist threat’. The Sunday […]
[…] congressmen. Chairing the relevant committee in Congress, Phil Gramm was among the leading beneficiaries. His wife, Wendy Gramm, had retired as head of the regulatory body governing futures trading in commodities and became head of Enron’s audit committee. She had a relatively small salary but rather large stock options.. BBC News, Friday, November 5, 1999
[…] is the wife of a local Tory party worker. The case of another Bedfordshire woman with Alzheimer’s who was apparently tricked into voting was taken up by BBC news. Louisa Garrett was seen on TV claiming that she ‘doesn’t really know’ who she voted for, but that she had ‘voted for Tony Blair and […]
[…] MI6 is rigging the House of Commons procedure in favour of “Red Ken”.’ Quite soon after this article appeared Neil Grant, then a schoolteacher, was offered and accepted a job at the BBC with Panorama, where he is now a producer, and ceased to supply Livingstone with questions about the British spooks and Northern Ireland.
[…] RUSI June 1984 (Journal of Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies) The High Tech Military and Civilian Alliance Adrian Milne The Listener May 10th Based on BBC Horizon programme. Sketchy account of Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, and the military’s dominance of research in this country. Miscellany Information wanted on Peter Dally, Chairman […]
[…] (some of his own staff referred to him as ‘Mr Prime Minister’), but Wyatt provides some additional touches. ‘Duke’ Hussey, it seems, only became chairman of the BBC on Murdoch’s strong recommendation. (Vol. 1, p. 201) More important was what Murdoch could do for Thatcher and what she could do for him. On 11 […]
[…] Royal Family) (28), and includes on its board Burke and a number of quango members. Its funding and support comes from BP, Glaxo, Lever Brothers, Shell, the BBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Tarmac, Sainsburys, Tesco, the privatised utilities, the DETR, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Prince’s Trust. Green Alliance people Membership […]
[…] the British High Commissioner in Bridgetown, specifically requested the dispatch of an SAS team to rescue Sir Paul Scoon, the Governor General of Grenada. A report on BBC television’s ‘Newsnight’, a few days after the invasion, said that the SAS were close by but stood down when the Americans decided to invade. Interest is […]
