[…] 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 […]
[…] is the explanation for this unbelievable piece of political camouflage? The only credible answer to date is supplied by Lester Coleman, who claims to have been an agent of the CIA and the lesser known Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) for eight years. In his Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie — Inside […]
[…] Extreme Prejudice (London: Robinson, 2005) there are two pages about the late Lord Mountbatten, recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: ‘Many within British intelligence circles knew him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy’s home used by the paedophile […]
[…] from Colody and Gettlin only in their candidate for ‘Deep Throat’. Instead of Haig, Newman suggested the late Bob Kunkle (my phonetic spelling) who had been Special Agent in Washington in charge of the FBI’s investigation of Watergate. Kunkle — not named in Colodny and Gettlin, or in Hougan — is a plausible candidate […]
Martin Dillon, Doubleday, London, 1994. This one, the third book called ‘the enemy within’ of last year, slipped by me at the time: I didn’t notice a single review. Most of it describes the IRA’s various campaigns against the British, not something I am interested in. However there is one rivetting chapter called, ‘The Intelligence … Read more
[…] 1988, after Congressional support for the Contras was terminated altogether.(15) By this time Matta Ballesteros was sought by the DEA for the murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Two of his associates and co-defendants in that murder case, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo of the then dominant Mexican Guadalajara cartel, […]
[…] March 1981, there was this snippet: ‘Why all the fuss about the Panorama programme on British Intelligence? Eventually there was just one cut — Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, former freelance journalist, in a pre-title sequence: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team […]
[…] me if I am wrong) that the German actually had an MI5 Personal File (‘PF’). Are we to take it from this that Haushofer was a British agent? Robertson’s obvious knowledge of some background at least is suggestive as is his well-known membership of the Double Cross Committee which ran deception operations and turned […]
[…] actually the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (p. 28); and its chair, Lane Kirkland, was certainly pro-NATO, but where is the evidence he was a ‘former CIA agent’? The Economic League did not come after Moral Re-armament (p. 28). Common Cause did not come after IRIS (p. 29). Other unsourced assertions include the funding […]
[…] a member of a Roman Catholic sect, a retired rent boy and someone who was later splashed across the front page of The Observer as an SIS agent. We gave a break to a minicab driver who nonetheless carried on sending us abusive faxes for years. There was a troublesome former Private Eye man […]
