Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

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[PDF file]: […] in Menzies and Churchill at War (London: Paragon House, 1987). Channon’s comments seem to bolster this assessment. 20 21 Her nickname was due to her thick, dark brown hair. 22 Channon had written The Ludwigs of Bavaria (1933), an account of the Wittlesbachs. 14 Given its date, was the message ‘Mrs Woolly well now […]

Misc reviews

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[…] a major piece of work by any standards. What is Opus Dei? Noam Friedlander 10 Headpress; UK £13.99 US $19.95, p/b Thom Burnett both London: Collis and Brown, £8.99, p/b These are two of the first batch of a new series, Conspiracy Books. Which might lead you to suspect you’d get a conspiracy or […]

The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan

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[PDF file]: […] of the Soviet bloc-NATO spy contest in the post-war years. For example: George Blake, Heinz Felfe, the putative post-war survival of ‘Gestapo’ Muller, an apparent clandestine Red- Brown post-war network called Hacke, and James Angleton’s curious fixation on the Soviet defector Anatoly Golitsyn. Apart from the Angleton-Golitsyn material, much of the rest of this […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

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[PDF file]: […] highly technical areas of public services, such as environmental monitoring, finance and digital technologies. This became apparent in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Blair/ Brown years, during the period of the Coalition government’s policy to slash spending on consultants. In one instance, a major rail franchise tender was withdrawn because the […]

The Balfour Declaration, and, Moment of Truth

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[PDF file]: […] part on the West Bank in three chapters. The first, ‘Can the Current Palestinian Leadership and Its Institutions End the Occupation?’ is led off by Nathan J Brown with responses by Diana Buttu and Glenn E Robinson. Subsequent chapters on Gaza follow the same formula, one chapter asking if Hamas can be part of […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely […]

Consultants Challen

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[…] highly technical areas of public services, such as environmental monitoring, finance and digital technologies. This became apparent in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Blair/ Brown years, during the period of the Coalition government’s policy to slash spending on consultants. In one instance, a major rail franchise tender was withdrawn because the […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

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[PDF file]: […] knew better than his superiors what the Arabs planned to do’.102 98 Golan (see note 90) p. 42. 99 Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, (New York: Little, Brown & Co.) 1982, p. 450. 100 Ibid. p. 459. 101 Alistair Horne, Kissinger’s Year: 1973 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009), p. 228. Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

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[PDF file]: […] Orwell describes how the so-called anti-fascists (as in today’s Antifa) eventually prove themselves to be the real fascists’. (p. 219) He seriously compares Antifa to the Nazi Brown Shirts and to the Ku Klux Klan – and, in doing so, manages to ignore the fact that both the contemporary US neo-Nazis and the KKK […]

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