[PDF file]: […] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]
[PDF file]: […] their fixation on international neo-con economics can take a running jump. And how likely is that? 7 Even in defence procurement. New regulations from the EU came into force last year. They are summarised by the MOD at Reporting on this, the Financial Times article was headed ‘MoD will no longer favour UK companies’. 8
[PDF file]: […] article in the New Statesman in November 1984 and amplified by Tam Dalyell MP. Pursuing the Belgrano issue, and prompted by leaks from Clive Ponting at the MoD, Dalyell was misinformed by one of his sources (unidentified) about Green’s actual role during the Falklands War and suggested in the Commons that Murrell had been […]
[…] Air Services (SAS), and secured access to the Foreign Office’s Information and Research Department, which has historically been used as a cover Department for M16 agents. The MOD gave the RFA a grant to pass on to RPOC. Now, Pincher claims, the Labour government are worried that their supporters will find out that the […]
[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 19 5 Mastercard, whose ads are on YouTube. Its APR (annual percentage rate) was 34.9% when I […]
[PDF file]: […] forbid the sales of Pegasus to governments that regularly violated human rights, but the petition was waved away. The Supreme Court in Israel refused to interfere with MOD decision-making, or to air the suit in public, or to even release the full text of the judgement to the public. The judges agreed with the […]
[…] counter-subversion preventative measures. I heard Hart speak on a number of occasions, first at the National Defence College, Latimer House, Buckinghamshire, in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate “propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ […]
[PDF file]: […] better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc etc, boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a shit-load of money in […]
[…] And – who knows? – maybe some of Ware’s earlier journalism will be examined. Two examples of this have been covered in Lobster: his recycling of the MoD lies about Colin Wallace and his portrait of the politics of Brent, described in Simon Matthews’ ‘Baa baa white sheep’.132 My guess is that, faced with […]
