If Truth be Told: Secrecy and subversion in an age turned unheroic Stan Winer Newton (Wales): Superscript, 2004, £10, p/back ISBN 0 9542913 36 available from This arrived with a note from the publisher which began: ‘We are a tiny radical press operating from a council house in mid-Wales. We aim to make heavy […]
[…] of Management of a couple of years ago.(1984) Feulner is Heritage Foundation, Haseler is rumoured to be straight CIA these days, and Allen was NSC advisor to Reagan until he got caught (or set up) taking a bribe. IEDSS appears to be run by Gerald Frost whose perambulations around the British Right go back […]
[…] from two other books of his: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America;(2) and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.(3) Scott effectively had the story documented three years before the recent ‘revelations’ by a San José newspaper that clients of the CIA had been allowed […]
Rodney Stich Diablo Western Press, USA, 1994 The first thing to be said is that this is a huge (650 pages), fascinating book; and I recommend it. It is really three stories interwoven. The first section describes the author’s experience of trying to alert the American civil aviation industry, then the politicians and then the […]
[…] the White House switchboard.’ It’s luminaries include former President George Bush (Carlyle’s senior adviser on Asia), Frank Carlucci (former CIA deputy director and Defense Secretary in the Reagan era and now Carlyle emeritus Chairman), James Baker III (Bush’s Secretary of State and senior Carlyle counsellor) and John Major, (the former British Prime Minister and […]
[…] in the Iran-Contra affair. Other son Dean, whose journalistic career at The Daily Telegraph prospered mightily under Conrad Black after serving as a defence assistant in the Reagan Administration, wrote a biography of David Trimble, and is now research director of the Policy Exchange. In that capacity Godson fronted its 2007 publication of The […]
[…] if he did. Hinckley is hinky At < http://www.noveltynet.org/content/paranormal/www.parascope.com/mx/articles/hinckley.htm > there is a series of still photographs taken at the time of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan with an analysis which claims that the photographs prove that John Hinckley didn’t do the shooting. I always thought there was something fishy about that shooting: […]
[…] and, failing that, cause him as much embarrassment as possible. But where was E-P and the Telegraph when we really needed them, during the scandalous years of Reagan and Bush, eh? What has Clinton done that could possibly be compared with, for example, the Savings and Loan rip-off, the biggest financial scandal in US […]
[…] economic advice they were getting? Nothing, in effect. I always thought Mrs Thatcher was a nitwit and the tales of her great intellect were coming from those around her who were unwilling or unable to acknowledge that she was the dummy she appeared to be. (Something similar has happened with Reagan and Bush junior.) RR
[…] the secret societies was visible in any expression of discontent. In 1819 Metternich of Austria proposed an international alliance against secret societies in terms similar to the Reagan administration’s rhetoric against ‘international terror.’ In the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848 Disraeli (in his Life of Lord George Bentick) made it clear that he […]
