[…] NatWest Charitable Trust. The influence of the unelected Baroness Scotland may wane rapidly once Blair goes, but the BAP will still have plenty of members around Gordon Brown should the man, who has already said he wants to replace Trident, begin to stray from Atlanticist orthodoxy. Thinking even further ahead we have BAP veteran […]
[…] who provided the intellectual underpinning for Gaitskell’s politics and some of his organisational muscle, was paid for a while by the CCF. We know, too, that George Brown, Gaitskell’s deputy, was so close to the Americans as to be described by some as a CIA source. We know that Gaitskell was on good terms […]
[…] quite understand that. From M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton seeks to revive in your number 39 legends about SOE propagated by Robert Marshall and Anthony Cave Brown. The collapse of Francis ‘Prosper’ Suttill’s SOE circuit, centred on Paris, in late June 1943 can be fully explained from the circuit’s own weaknesses: it was […]
[…] know that behind my back he is up to something quite different’, explained one Colonial Office Under-Secretary. On the other hand, key officials such as Anthony Montague Brown, Churchill’s Private Secretary, always looked forward to the yellow dispatch box in which Young put the cream of ‘C’s output. As part of the effort to […]
[…] whom are. One reason why the agencies have lost influence in Parliament is because of changes in the House of Lords. For example, having ex-spook/BP chairman Lord Brown there, is not the same as having, say, a Lord Hayter in situ. The latter was ‘the last family chairman of Chubb’ whose products ‘guarded the […]
[…] Defence Intelligence Staff did know about the 30 November 1987 document and expressed misgivings about its implications. These were not taken seriously enough to lead the government to stop or at least curtail the trade. See Inquiry D4.30. See his In the Public Interest (London, Little Brown, 1995; revised edition published by Warner Books, 1996)
[…] Summers, The Arrogance of Power: the Secret World of Richard Nixon (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000); Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), pp.18 and 71. The document was found on the PRO website at http://www.pro.gov.uk/docimages/KV/2_34a.gif . Haushofer’s list can be inferred from a memorandum Haushofer […]
CIA: read all about it The most striking intelligence story since the last issue was Tim Spicer’s ‘CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US’.(1) It included this: ‘A British intelligence source revealed that a staggering four out of ten CIA operations designed to thwart direct attacks on the … Read more
[…] was ‘dazzled by Blair’s drive and religious commitment’. Two months later, the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, Blair won the election contest with Gordon Brown; and Michael Levy set about raising money – the figure of £7 million is widely quoted – for Tony Blair’s personal use. The big early contributors […]
[…] to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith’s heart attack. And we got an end to the party’s members, via annual conference, having any say at all in policy making. I […]
