[…] octane fantasist and paranoiac. Yet Spiesel was produced as a key witness and claimed to have been present with Clay Shaw and the aviator and low-grade CIA agent David Ferrie at a meeting whose main topic of conversation was how to murder the President. Why wasn’t Spiesel checked more thoroughly? What did this fiasco […]
[…] quotations – to show that the big bogey figure of 1939/45 was Winston Churchill….duping Roosevelt….duping Stalin…….pointlessly intransigent toward Hitler etc. Kilzer’s theory that Bormann was a Communist agent has actually been around since the early 1950s. (2) No evidence has ever been produced to substantiate this view. His book is basically a study of […]
Operation Paget, the investigation by the team led by Sir John Stevens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, briefly tried to investigate a collision between a white Fiat Uno and Princess Diana’s BMW. The head-on collision happened on 22 March 1996, on Cromwell Road, Kensington, when a casino employee lost control of a … Read more
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs Douglas Valentine London/New York: Verso, 2004, h/back, £20 This comes garlanded with praise from Jim Hougan and Anthony Summers. The praise is justified: this is, as Hougan says, ‘a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting’; and it is, as Summers says, ‘a … Read more
Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster 9 and … Read more
[…] I had taken from the headquarters of the South African Information Department in Pretoria) proving that he had been framed. Martin Dollinchek, alias Martin Donaldson (a BOSS agent who was captured when the CIA, MI6 and BOSS mounted a joint attempt to invade the Seychelles in an attempt to bring Boss’s agent of influence […]
[…] in the machinery of the Iranian government.’ In my view the main role in that coup was played by the British. Lieutenant-General Fazlolah Zahedi was a British agent. Major General Hassan Akhavi was the brain behind the Arfaa’s group . The Rashidian brothers were all British agents. The British managed to obtain American support […]
[…] it in an issue that for the first time advertised copies of Qadhafi’s Green Book. That should be enough to have Mr. Roads register as a Libyan agent, even though in other instances Nexus has, for instance, reviewed books which explicitly condemn CIA nation-building involvement in the creation of Qaddafy’s state. Best, Kenn Thomas […]
The true story of Searchlight agent Tim Hepple This is Larry O’Hara’s reply to the Searchight pamphlet At War With Society (which, in turn, was a response to Larry’s A Lie Too Far). Unlike A Lie Too Far, however, this has been professionally desk-topped, edited, proof-read and printed. This is 28 pages, many of […]
Richard Beeston Brassey’s, London and Washington, 1997 no price stated This is worth skimming through, especially for the early 1950s period when Beeston was very close to SIS operations in the Middle East. These early chapters convey very clearly how the patriotic British journalist of the period rubbed shoulders with his country’s ‘secret agents’ and … Read more
