[…] In January the 1962 files of the Public Records Office were opened. These included: GS Grenade, Hanratty, Police National Computer, bombing hostile tribes, exporting fissile material, and BBC defence plans, plus over 700 others. Full listings for 1993 openings £10, and £5 each year for 1989-92 from: Roger J Morgan, 15A Kensington Court Gardens, […]
[…] on State steel bodies and Director-General of the CBI from 1969-1976, was a deputy under-secretary at the Department of Economic Affairs from 1967-69; a member of the BBC advisory committee from.1964-67, and from then till 1975; on the Social Science Research Council from 1965-69; and on the National Economic Development Council from 1969-76. A […]
[…] seems vaery like a typically dated, crude attempt at ineffective Anglo-US mind control: ‘the Allies’ are equally adept at AP, albeit of a different type. ‘This Week’, BBC TV, 23 September 2004. 15 Financial Terrorists: An example could be those known collectively as the Russian oil oligarchs, whose corruption is responsible for as much […]
[…] The Warren Report (Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1964), p. 201. Mailer filmed interview in Robert Stone’s 85 minute documentary, Oswald’s Ghost. Most recently shown on BBC Four on 5 June 2007. Bugliosi seems not to be aware of this novelettish silliness. And on the subject of Mailer, did anyone ever get beyond […]
[…] Nonetheless this line is at the heart of both of the Bruce and Urban books. Urban is an interesting figure. A 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 […]
[…] Stormont. * * * The new Kincora inquiry will be chaired by a retired English circuit judge, William Hughes. When asked on ‘The World At One’ ( BBC Radio 4, 18th January 1984) if the inquiry would take evidence on the alleged activities of the intelligence agencies, James Prior, Northern Ireland Secretary of State, […]
[…] the essays on the workings of the media and state propaganda; and of those the most interesting pieces to me are by the journalists: Tim Llewellyn, former BBC reporter, on how the corporation persuades itself that it isn’t pro-Israeli; Yvonne Ridley on waking-up to the reality of what the major media was doing; and […]
[…] entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To the latter’s account can be added the following. (a) Michael Charlton’s, The Eagle and the Small Birds ( BBC, London, 1984) contains a section, pp. 78-85, on the post-war show trials. But there appears to be no readily available full-scale study of them. Given the […]
[…] also points out that ‘chroniclers of the New Labour government as well as biographers of the Prime Minister have effectively ignored Rupert Murdoch’. Jon Sopel of the BBC never mentioned him in his 1995 Blair biog; in 550 pages on New Labour, The Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley gave Murdoch three name checks; and John Rentoul […]
[…] Spending Review indicated that, if there is money to spare, it would go to the security and intelligence services and into soft power arrangements (such as the BBC Arabic and Farsi broadcast channels) and not into the sort of military resource that could cope with more than one military intervention at a time. The […]
