[…] and details of the intelligence operation, Clockwork Orange.’ That Wallace was a ‘Walter Mitty’ figure was one of the lines put out by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) during Wallace’s trial in 1981 for murder. A piece in Private Eye 10 June 1987, presumably by Paul Foot, said, ‘Panorama reporter John Ware argued strongly […]
Parapolitics: “Generally, covert politics, the conduct of public affairs not by rational debate and responsible decision-making but by indirection, collusion and deceit.” – Peter Dale Scott The Watergate tag is appropriate to Kincora because, like that epic affair, an initial minor offence was the key that unlocked many secret doors. As James Angleton noted: “A … Read more
[…] officials of the Atlantic Council, which has the astonishing ‘charitable purpose’ of building support for NATO. It incorporates Peace Through NATO, the group central to Michael Heseltine’s MoD campaign against CND in the early 1980s. It receives over £100,000 a year from the Foreign Office, as well as payments from the Dulverton Trust.(18) TUCETU […]
[…] who had declined to sign The Beatles. But even if they had pursued the Wilson steer towards Wallace, in 1976/7 finding him would have been difficult: the MOD has parked him in Preston. Had they found him, Wallace says today: ‘…if I had been made aware that the former PM had asked Penrose and […]
[…] the Thatcher government to push through a highly ambitious nuclear power programme which set the context for this murder. We know from Cathy Massiter (17) that the MoD and Home Office were using MI5 to monitor anti-nuclear war protesters, and from Gareth Parry (18) that an American company, thought to be pressurised water reactor […]
[…] which came in after 1997 which I had not seen before and intelligence got swept up in that.’ During the bombing of Yugoslavia the pressure from the MOD press office to come up with good news was intense. Morrison said: ‘What I did, in effect, was within my crisis staff, set up in effect […]
[…] the 1980s battle of Helen Smiths father, a retired policeman, to prove that his daughter, a nurse, was murdered in Saudi Arabia. This pitched him against spook, MOD and FO officials alike – along with the British class system – who perceived state and private sector interests to be best served by cynical cover-up […]
[…] compiled during the CIA/Army’s Project OFTEN, examining several thousand chemical compounds, during 1976-1973, is a most likely candidate for any chemical agents for nonlethal weapons. The British MoD is already developing a ‘microwave bomb’. Work on the weapon is going on at the Defence Research Agency at Farnborough, Hampshire. See Sunday Telegraph September 27, […]
[…] including confidential legally-privileged material are being routinely intercepted by GCHQ and processed by the security and intelligence services. Communications between Britain and Ireland were intercepted via an MOD installation at Capenhurst in Cheshire and later, it is claimed, by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that RIPA fails to provide adequate safeguards to […]
[…] a 1991-formed company whose sole shareholders are a Dr Andrew Clifford and his wife. Dr Clifford is an engineer and metallurgist and his principal employer is the MOD. In issue 286, February 1992, George Wingfield, author of the research in the paragraph above, adds: he cannot connect ‘MBF Consultancy’ with ‘MBF Services’; that the […]
