Organisation, History and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or ‘new’ right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an ‘anti wet’ alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist and libertarian/radical […]
[…] were going around: Ted Short’s phoney bank account and all the forged leaflets and letters trying to link Wilson and others to the Communist Party and the IRA. And here is the core of my complaint: it wasn’t just a plot against Wilson; it was a plot against the Labour and Liberal parties and […]
[…] himself, before being made a British citizen soon after New Labour was elected in 1997. Kochan ranges widely from the Bank of New York scandals to the IRA in courageously pursuing his theme that laundered money corrupts the wider economy. He concludes: “Money laundering by criminal or terrorist groups has far-reaching implications for the […]
[…] conviction as before. The ‘rogue elephant’ theme, recycled by Mooney, was launched, unnoticed, by Chapman Pincher in 1978, in Inside Story. ‘In the psychological war against the IRA, the Army ran an ‘Information Policy’ operation in which false stories were foisted on newspapers to such an extent that an official was forced to leave […]
[…] inclined to put themselves forward. In addition, the use of the word risks linkage with other spook employers: a courageous former British agent who worked inside the IRA has warned that he was ‘dumped’ by the security forces. ‘When you are no longer of use, they leave you high and dry with no regard […]
[…] INFANTRY BRIGADE -18 ‘WORK FOR ADMIRALTY’ -20- ‘FOREIGN OFFICE NEWS DEPARTMENT’ 26-40 PRESS ATTACHE PARIS, FRIEND OF DUKE OF WINDSOR MOORES, MICHAEL MI6 (N) 1980s OPERATIONS AGAINST IRA IN WEST GERMANY MORGAN, COL. E.P. MI5 (W) 39-45 SECURITY MOSS, PADDY GCHQ 1970s SENIOR POST GCHQ MOSS, DAVID JOSEPH B. 6/11/38 1956 CIVIL SERVICE COLLEGE […]
[…] on top, replacing the Soviet ‘threat’ with the terrorist ‘threat’, and actually expanding its personnel, while MI6 and GCHQ are tightening (pretty generous) belts. Let’s hope the IRA, the animal rights movement, Green Anarchist and the anti-roads campaigners are suitably flattered to be the equivalent of the espionage services of a super-power! For all […]
[…] to happen because there is virtually no political control over the security organisations: when they fuck-up nothing happens to them. MI5 botch a surveillance of an IRA operation and £300 million’s worth of damage is done to the City of London; and nothing happens, no heads roll. MI6 gets involved in trying to […]
[…] Pascal was grateful for the cynical freemasonry of veteran Belfast reporters, which had omitted to inform his London colleague that McDowell’s imagination had already reinforced the Provisional IRA with cadres of Vietcong, Czechoslovakians, Lithuanians and Communist Frenchmen.’ Dowling understood, had correctly ‘read’ some of the Information Policy operations. Other ‘Irish hands’ certainly knew of […]
[…] machine in the summer of 1966. And it was the KGB’s best buy for years. Cubans in London and Paris have helped run arms shipments to the IRA – and supplied passports to Palestinian guerrilla factions. Its seventeen diplomats are under constant surveillance. It wasn’t only in the Eye that dubious material appeared in […]
