[…] few of us were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. That’s what I call fear-mongering, un-justified, proven wrong.” ’ MI6, BP and oil Reportedly the subject of a D-notice after it appeared in the Daily Mail, and subsequently withdrawn from that paper’s Website, Glen Owen’s ‘Hookers, […]
[…] Probably not, even in the best of circumstances; certainly not when the document in question happened to be lying about in an unguarded room in Baghdad. Would MI6 think it worthwhile fabricating such a document to nail Galloway? Of course. However we regard Galloway there is no doubt that the Telegraph has been used […]
[…] Common Cause, Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on the work of the Information Research Department of the Foreign […]
The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of […]
[…] editor of The Spectator. His wife is Sarah Schaefer, a big wheel at the Foreign Policy Centre alongside Stephen Twigg (see Lobster 50), Baroness Ramsay, formerly of MI6, and Blair fundraiser and Middle East envoy Lord Levy. Schaefer previously worked for the pro-Euro campaign, the Social Market Foundation and as adviser to Denis MacShane. […]
[…] Warren Commission about an apparent plot to kill JFK in early November 1963 in Chicago. The report said that they had been allowed to do this in return for information on Turkish drug traffickers. Although they weren’t referred to in the report, I would guess that MI6 were involved in a deal of this size.
[…] enough to show the allegiance to the state among media personnel. Daphne Park, for example, of the BBC Board of Governors, is not described as former senior MI6 officer. Paul Wilkinson is frequently quoted, but there is nothing on his part in the disinformation campaign against Colin Wallace, discussed in Lobster 16, which led, […]
[…] of capital.(30)It is hard to say whether Sinn Fein were always seen as an integral part of this process by British administrations, but secret diplomacy resumed through MI6 in 1989 and this time proved more durable. It led to the Downing Street Declaration of 1992 and the deliberate scuppering of the Combined Loyalist Military […]
[…] years ago that they are now. The two characters who receive this treatment are the brothers Paul and Hume Boggis-Rolfe, together with Carl Aarvold. Paul Boggis-Rolfe, ex- MI6, was allegedly involved in drafting the land deal for which de Courcy was framed. Hume Boggis-Rolf, ex-MI5, was a senior official at the Lord Chancellor’s department […]
[…] going to win, particularly as communist-affiliated groups were attempting to take the initiative on this soon after WWII. As Stephen Dorril has stressed in his book on MI6, the British involvement in these activities was ahead of the Americans in many respects. Aldrich related how the Cultural Relations Department, a forerunner to the more […]
