Responsibilities, old boy The Big Breach Richard Tomlinson Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2000, £9.99 I found it hard to ‘see’ this because so much of its contents have been published in the media. There have been some changes – names altered – since the newspaper versions; and I am told that the original hardback version … Read more
This is from No 3 volume 7, 1988 of Geheim, the German member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags (of which Lobster is apparently the smallest, poorest and least frequent). The good news for those of us too lazy to learn anything but English is that Geheim is going to produce an English- language … Read more
[…] evidence the contained conecrning war ‘preplanning’. ‘Gladio’ and NATO’s Terrorist Network. Investigating the allegations of NATO involvement in terrorism. Gulf War Launches ‘New World’ Order’. Ex-CIA chief agent Phillip Agee’s comprehensive analysis of American military operations. Economic League: Political Surveillance. Including an unpublished essay by the League on the State of the Left, Anarchists […]
[…] the American Federation of Labor (AFL) representative in Europe for many years following the Second World War, and was, in the words of Philip Agee, ‘principal CIA agent for control of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions’.(23) They met the leaders of Force Ouvrière, again in February, to discuss mutual problems, including the […]
[…] Union – source-of-all-terrorism line, and general apologist for US (and UK) support for some of the most obnoxious regimes in the “free world”? Crozier’s “hero”, a NATO agent called Peter Lock (is Crozier telling us NATO has its own Intelligence service?) is. an emotionless psychopath for whom “killing caused a sexual swelling”. (p. 6) […]
[…] some weeks in 1988 to get me to invite him up to live in Hull with a mixture of promises of information on his career as an agent for MI5 and stories about his ill-health and the failing NHS in London. He was quite a good actor — he had, indeed, been an actor […]
Douglas Macleod Edinburgh: Birlinn; £9.99, p/b <www.birlinn.co.uk> Twenty years ago, before the current torrent of information about ‘the secret world of intelligence’, we were scratching about looking for clues to our secret history. One was given in the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983) which contained a single reference to the Scottish … Read more
[…] for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a KGB agent because of his overly close relationship to Golitsyn, so Lundy was smeared because of his working relationship with Garner. It is not a game for innocents […]
[…] of a President. HOSTY, James P., Jr. (with Thomas Hosty). Assignment: Oswald. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996. viii + 328 pps. Illustrated, index. Hosty, the Dallas FBI agent who destroyed a note from Lee Harvey Oswald on the orders of SAG Gordon Shanklin, here tells his story. Few surprises, good on FBI procedure and […]
[…] on politics around the end of the 19th century. He wanted to deal with the Greenwich explosion, used as the basis for Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent, as well as the trials of the anarchists at Walsall and elsewhere. However, Harold Wilson’s administration did not want the repressive actions of a bygone age […]
