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A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’
[PDF file]: […] about this in letters to R. A. Butler, while the Prime Minister kept a file on Samuel Hoare, receiving reports on his movements in Spain from an agent with the code-name of Harlequin.6 Both SIS and the Foreign Office were aware of Hoare’s contacts with the well-connected Liechtensteinian and pro-German go-between Max von Hohenlohe […]
I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent
[PDF file]: […] the police on the grounds that he was in breach of electoral law (he was) by distributing specifically partisan and targeted material without indicating a printer or agent and without submitting proper expenses. This resulted in a major Special Branch enquiry throughout the remainder of 1970 during which Simon Dee (whose whereabouts were known) […]
The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941
[PDF file]: […] sent to get hold of sensitive royal correspondence with Hitler and other senior Nazis? In support of this theory, after Blunt had been revealed as a Soviet agent, his MI5 interrogator, Peter Wright, states that was told in 1964 by Michael Adeane, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II: ‘From time to time . . […]
Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State
[PDF file]: […] comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In the Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see […]
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Between The Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 by Tom McTague
[PDF file]: […] us of Brian Crozier’s role advising Mrs Thatcher in the 1980s but accepts Crozier’s story of being – as his memoir’s title has it – a free agent. But as I wrote in reviewing Free Agent: . . . his ‘independence’ is finally revealed as simply a cover story on p. 92 when he […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess would be that the Kennedys paid her to […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] informed me that this is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of […]
Maggie’s guilty secret
[PDF file]: […] all about the US’s supposedly secret negotiations with Iraq, and even the details of Operation Desert Eagle itself. Behind the scenes Casey approached Mohammed Hashemi, a CIA agent in Iran, and negotiated his own secret deal on behalf of Reagan, whereby the US promised to sell large quantities of high tech weapons secretly to […]