[…] who had contact with the CPGB,30 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for […]
[PDF file]: […] antics are not out of keeping with such an approach. On the other hand, he was never officer material and clearly didn’t operate as a spy or agent in any conventional sense. He was far too unreliable a character. As well as having a prodigious appetite for alcohol and a wide range of drugs, […]
[PDF file]: […] (see note 18) p. 608. 29 Robert Moss, Chile’s Marxist Experiment (Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles, 1973). 30 See McEvoy, (see note 18). Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: Harper Collins, 1993), p. 115. 31 See Jennifer M. Piscopo and Peter M. Siavelis, ‘Chile’s Constitutional Moment’, Current History Vol. 120, […]
[…] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]
[PDF file]: […] by faith alone – one adopted by the entire US political class and deeply held to this day. In the English-speaking world, mainstream journalism is the principal agent of what Orwell called ‘the thought police’ . CIA: the ministry of love and peace Instrumental in the creation of a permanent war system – true […]
