[…] of the bug was for fear that Stalker might discover that MI5 had also bugged the car in which McTerr, Toman and Burns were killed. According to BBC reporter Chris Moore, ‘the security forces involved in the covert surveillance operation were able to listen to the conversation going on in the car.’ (21) An […]
[…] country’s most expensive PR firms.’ (The Journalist, November 2007). Declaration of Interests: I am a supporter of the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom which supports the BBC. See Independent on Sunday, 16 September 2007 See admission by former SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove of sympathy with what he called ‘initial use’ of rendition […]
[…] them up the Anglo-Americans assembled an ‘invasion fleet’ on the English east coast and launched 3215 fighter and bomber sorties against ‘invasion targets’.(3) On 17 August the BBC announced ‘the liberation of occupied countries has begun’. But the Germans did not believe any of it. Indeed they actually moved some divisions out of France […]
Introduction There are a couple of interesting chapters in Chapman Pincher’s recent The Truth About Dirty Tricks, (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991), especially the one about Harold Wilson’s ‘spymaster’, the late George Wigg; but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher’s primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic […]
Tony Blair will be remembered not just for the slaughter in Iraq, and the subsequent collapse of Labour in Scotland in face of a resurgent SNP, but as the Labour leader who could have forged common links across Europe but chose to side with one of the continent’s most despised figures. Charles Clarke, one of […]
[…] Lobster 19 we referred to Keston College as a probable MI6 operation. One of our readers had the wit to send our reference to Keston to the BBC, asking for comments. The editor of the Radio 4 programme ‘Sunday’ replied that ‘It is not the first time we have encountered such suggestions, and we […]
[…] trend to target children; e.g. and however exciting, an espionage exhibition at a national London museum. The tactic is straight out of the marketing manuals. See ‘Ex- BBC and Blair aides hired’, The Independent 1 July 2006. The media played into its hands by publicising the incident, providing thousands of pounds of free advertising. […]
[…] entail a complete revision of extant accounts of that event; and students of the media will have to take on board the chapter on IRD and the BBC – not to mention the extraordinary fact that as late as 1976, 92 British journalists were on IRD’s distribution list. So how many were on the […]
[…] remains to be seen. Notes 1 < www.innocent.org.uk > 2 Don Hale, Town Without Pity, (London: Century, 2002), pp.196-7. 3 His story is being made into a BBC TV drama for February/March 2004 called ‘In denial of murder’. 4 < www.pca.gov.uk/investig/others.htm > 5 The new Code of Conduct (Schedule 1 of the Police (Conduct) […]
[…] the Hess Affair was due to be screened in Holland in September 1990. Dr Hugh Thomas said ‘I offered both Dr Andrew and the producer of the BBC programme sight of the old 1941 file but they refused to look at it.’ Thomas says he first met Oldfield when serving as an army surgeon […]
