The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what … Read more
[…] Plan (www.disa.mil/cio/y2k/mgtplan.html), which includes a 5-phase approach to addressing the Y2K problem. Relevant GAO reports in full text at http://www.fas.org/2000/y2k/gao/index.html Around 40 GAO reports covering the millennium bug and its effects on a range of activities: telecommunications, defence: Army, Navy, DoD, public services, financial and business, etc Intelligence David Shayler http://www.shayler.com/ Official website of […]
Through The Looking Glass: British Foreign Policy In An Age Of Illusions Anthony Verrier (Cape, London 1983) This will probably turn out to be an important book, maybe even a little landmark in the (scanty) literature on British foreign policy since the war. So far it has been largely ignored by the literary/political establishment, receiving … Read more
As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending to … Read more
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
2. Freedom and the Security Services – a Labour Party Discussion Document (£1.50 plus postage from The Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JT) With this the Labour Party has taken a significant step towards the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held … Read more
Jane Affleck Here are a few more websites, focusing chiefly on the issue of electronic privacy which is currently being debated both in the U.S. and Europe. Thanks to those who have sent comments, and thanks for contributions to: Terry Hanstock, Ian Tresman and Tony Hollick. Comments and contributions are welcome: I can be contacted … Read more
[…] at the time, was actually a ruse used by the Americans to divert attention away from their own work with ‘flying saucer’ technology, in particular ‘Project Silver Bug’. His findings on this point, however, are inconclusive. As for the second half of the book, comprising mostly of a hodgepodge of speculation and rumour on […]
Ann Rogers Pluto Press, 1997 £35.00 h.b. £10.99 p.b On page 2 the author announces that she is going to use a ‘Foucauldian approach’. To wit: ‘It focuses on the effects of power rather than its mechanism; that is, it attempts to analyse visible manifestations of power as outputs rather than intentions. Foucault argues … Read more
Introduction I write this as a member of ‘old Labour’, and like others of that ilk, I am looking for a way out of the present farce-cum-nightmare of a Labour Party lead by a tiny group of not very bright Thatcherites.(1) To understand where we are now, we have to go back to the 1970s. … Read more
