Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Constable, 2009, h/b, £18.99 This is quite interesting and impressive; but with a strange spin. There is a lot of (to me) new detail on the impact of the event on the Labour Party and trade unions, on money given to the NUM from other unions and on attempts … Read more
[…] CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 39-45 ADVISER TO SEFTON DELMER POLITICAL WARFARE EXECUTIVE AUTHOR McDOWELL, THOMAS B. MI5 (THE CECIL KING DIARIES 1970-74) WW2 ULSTER RIFLES 50-60’s MI5 STAFF SUBSEQUENTLY AGENT BARRISTER, BUSINESSMAN -83 MANAGING EDITOR IRISH TIMES McHUGH, J.N. 44-45 FORCE 136 BLACK PROPAGANDA -50 DIR. INFORMATION DEPT. MALAYA 52-53 DEPUTY DIR-GEN. INFO DEPT. MACINTOSH, MAJ. […]
[…] of Periodicals During Year Ending 31 December 1959’, CCF Archive, Series IV Box 11 Folder 9. For instance, it is almost worthless speculating whether Lasky was the agent with Encounter that Braden mentioned in ‘I’m Glad the CIA is “Immoral”‘ because it would be wrong to see him as just a CIA man. For […]
[…] he was having an affair with the man’s wife”…”Senior UDA men revealed that Wallace had tipped them off that the man he wanted murdered was a communist agent trying to infiltrate Loyalist paramilitaries … Wallace has pretended to be a press man when ‘tipping them off that the Antrim teacher was the leader of […]
[…] laid etc etc. Along the way ‘West’ drops a number of tidbits: an intricate explanation, going back to pre-war days, of how Philby was really a triple agent; and a version of the ‘peace plotting’ circa 1940 by the British right which purports to demonstrate that the ‘plot’ was really a Soviet operation – […]
Chip Berlet This 63-page essay describes a wide range of contacts between what in a British context would be described as right-wing conspiracy theorists and the left. Berlet documents a range of contacts between the far-right Liberty Lobby, followers of LaRouche, Bo Gritz and the Populist Party, the Christic Institute, Radio Free America and a … Read more
[…] ‘Proven Connection’. West’s view of Hollis as a Soviet mole is partly based on the possible connections with Claud Cockburn who he sees as being a ‘Comintern Agent’. The two certainly knew each other in their university days. It is the view of the anti-Hollis faction that during his interrogation in 1969, as part […]
John Armstrong Arlington, Texas: Quasar Ltd., 2003 $40, plus postage, from <www.jfkresearch.com/armstrong/> This is a major publishing event in the JFK assassination world. Parts of Armstrong’s work has been on the Net and he’s spoken at some of the big JFK conferences. His work-in-progress became spoken of as ‘the John Armstrong research’; and finally … Read more
[…] key words. They claim that ECHELON automatically analyses most e-mail messaging for ‘precursor’ data which assists intelligence agencies to determine targets. According to former Canadian Security Establishment agent Mike Frost, a voice recognition system called Oratory has been used for some years to intercept diplomatic calls. The report recommends a variety of measures for […]
[…] come and go, with much less prominence, and very much less risk of accidents on take-off and landing. We are asked to accept that a VX nerve agent was used, with a C-130 Hercules simultaneously flying out of Dhahran to obliterate any traces of nerve agent with two five ton fuel-air explosive devices. Why […]
