[…] in the 1950s the Americans (and the British) knew very little about the Soviet Union and had almost no agents on the ground. How to get an agent into the Soviet Union must have been high on many agenda in the US intelligence community; defection was one obvious way of doing it; and sending […]
[…] think that there might be a common thread behind the killings which might lead to similar incidents which had been hidden away. He also suspected that an agent provocateur was at work and that his information may have been bogus. The Mounsey inquiry The withdrawal of co-operation by the RUC Special Branch was probably […]
Marc Seifer Birch Lane Press, 1996. £15.95 (plus £2 postage) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL. In the last 15-20 years the name Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. … Read more
[…] 20 September 1997; David Leppard, ‘Diana driver was secret informer’, The Sunday Times, 26 February 2006. Richard Palmer and Peter Allen, ‘Diana probe: bid to force secret agent to reveal all’, The Express, 15 August 2005; Peter Allen, ‘Spies in constant touch with driver’, The Express, 28 November 2005. Its unclear if the judicial […]
[…] supporter of Mr Neville Chamberlain.’ (25) Hulton, like many right-wing Tories, may have supported corporatist aims in war-time, but never socialism. He was almost certainly a loyal agent of MI6’s Section D. In 1939 he helped set up the bogus news agency Britanova and, in 1941, used the Picture Post as a front for […]
Media Monitoring Unit This looks like another case of the British Right imitating its American counter-parts, in this case AIM (Accuracy in Media – analysed in great detail in Covert Action Information Bulletin No 21, available from PO Box 50272 Washington DC 20004 $3.00). The main people behind MMU appear to be Julian Lewis and … Read more
[…] for the prize for most inaccurate jacket ever written. It begins by stating that this is the first MI6 memoir (it isn’t), calls MI6 officer Bristow an ‘ agent’, (the one thing which drives intelligence officers nuts), and then makes claims not to be found in the text. Of interest only to serious MI6 buffs.
[…] Noam Secrets, Lies and Democracy, Odonian Press, 1994 Chomsky, Noam Powers and Prospects, South End Press, 1996 Coleman, Peter A Liberal Conspiracy, Macmillan 1989 Crozier, Brian Free Agent, Harper Collins, 1993 Cumings, Bruce ‘Chinatown: Foreign Policy and Elite Realignment’ in Ferguson, Thomas & Rogers, Joel (eds.) The Hidden Election, Random House, 1981 Dawkins. Kristin […]
[…] Davis Books, PO Box 1107, Aptos, California CA95001 1107 USA. Goodies to look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis also stocks back issues of […]
Despite ‘coalition’ forces now being engaged in a guerilla war (which no-one seems to have foreseen), analysis of the information war which accompanied the invasion of Iraq has begun to appear. Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Collins, head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think about … Read more
