[…] 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 […]
[…] the call) Minister of State for the Armed Forces. In November 1995, Soames had publicly claimed that the Princess was in ‘the advanced stages of paranoia’ (on BBC 2’s Newsnight) and said that she was pulling off ‘a very calculating and a very polished performance’ (Radio 4 Today programme) after her Panorama appearance. The […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] by the Vatican to shore up the Italian state; and a suggestion that John Connally is linked to Mafia figures. (SD) 22. Two large articles by ex- BBC Journalist Tom Bower on Klaus Barbie and his links with US intelligence. (ST 3rd July, IHT 6th July, 1983). The articles are similar, though the IHT […]
[…] 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 […]
