[…] of Algiers, to get a feel for what we may be in for. From threat to movement? Some are now saying the unsayable: that, as with the IRA, talks will eventually be required with Al-Qaeda. That would be a sign of failure. My view is that talks should long ago have started with the […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
[…] John Baird visited England at a house on the Old Hollywood Road in Belfast. The house was a Brit-intelligence base used as a pickup point for Provisional IRA leaders during the peace talks in 1976 which led to the setting up of Republican ‘Incident Centres’ paid for by the British. England was then C(Int)NI […]
‘I know nothing about it. I don’t want to say I didn’t at the time, but today I have no knowledge of it.’ Former US Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara on the attack on USS Liberty. ‘As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy four years earlier, the official version [of the attack on … Read more
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 […]
On July 23 the Court of Appeal overturned the convictions of Noel Molland, Steve Booth and Saxon Wood (the GAndALF 3). The three had been convicted at Portsmouth Crown Court in November 1997 and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for conspiring with two others to ‘unlawfully incite persons unknown to commit criminal damage’ by reporting […]
[…] 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 […]
