[…] hard to think of anyone with a better motive or a stronger track record in Cold War and ‘war on terror’ disinformation. Wolfowitz, New Labour and the BBC On June 10 1997, shortly after New Labour was elected, Paul Wolfowitz was special guest at a party thrown by the British Ambassador in Washington, Sir […]
[…] of the inability of Labour and Democratic politicians to look reality in the face. Tunes and pipers Phil Chamberlain alerted me the reference in the blog of BBC Chief Political Correspondent Nick Robinson to Gordon Brown reading Frances Stonor Saunders’ Who Paid The Piper?, her long account of the CIA’s ‘cultural war’ in the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] French investigators allegedly showed Diana with her eyes open, apparently conscious and unhurt, and with no sign of blood on her body or her clothes.(33) Some early BBC bulletins even went so far as to describe her as ‘…walking and talking with a broken arm…'(34) Although the initial diagnosis of Diana’s condition may not […]
[…] with Lewis’ wife, Jane. The case became known as the ‘It’s a Knockout’ trial because the affair started when the couple organised a local heat of the BBC TV competition.” (Leveller ibid) In a recent report from David McKittrick, Wallace admitted to him that British intelligence had been guilty of serious misbehaviour. This included, […]
[…] 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) […]
