Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. … Read more
[…] the public, the beneficiaries of SIS specialist areas. That is to say, public health officials (germ warfare), forensic accountants (money laundering), doctors, nurses and police officers ( drugs running), and various United Nations officials (weapons of mass destruction). Next could come the representatives, including the religious and corporate ones, of the various communities in […]
[…] possible eighteen Directorate members, two had resigned – Paul Johnson (charged with sending fake explosive devices through the post) and Roger Denny (in embarrassment over a soft drugs offence). Thus, even with the imprisoned Pearce’s proxy vote, the ‘Flag’ tendency now only had seven Directorate votes: Acton, Anderson, Brons, the veteran Tom Mundy, Paul […]
[…] friend of the victim, Lysa Rubotham, who was present throughout, insists that no rape took place. Tenthly, the victim admitted to being a regular user of hallucinatory drugs. Something is wrong, and I want something done about it.’ The Crown Prosecution Service did nothing about it. Greater Manchester Police even wrote to Campbell-Savours to […]
Frost/Nixon Or, a load of old dick When Frost/Nixon first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London back in 2006 I wondered why on earth anyone would want to stage, to recreate, what was, essentially, a non-event. Why indeed? One can imagine mere actors relishing the opportunity to ‘interpret’ Frost and Nixon but who … Read more
[…] about ‘George’ is that he is interested in the Naga people of the Himalayas. Both writers should have informed us of this key player’s long record of drugs offences, and his reputation as a ‘grass’ after making deals with both Police and Customs. Nevertheless, ‘George’ tells an interesting tale. While some members of this […]
The three Arrigos In the last Lobster (‘Spookaroonie’, p. 26) I noted the comments on <intelforum.org> of Maria Arrigo, a ‘social psychologist with experience in [intelligence] operations’ asking for evidence of ‘covert weapons experiments in post-war South America’ and wondered what was afoot. It was just an interesting little snippet which I came across at … Read more
[…] prostitution: William McGrath, Van Straubenzee, Clifford Smyth Wilson’s affair with Marcia Williams (Secretary) in Moscow Finance: Maudling, Thorpe, Wilson, Short etc. Fianna Fail: Charles Haughey – IRA/ drugs link. Bill Fuller ‘Old (illegible) Hotel’ Norman Frank Butler/Sammy Smyth UDA Jackie Watson: Billy Hull LAW funds Paisley: transfer of funds to USA, Australia and S.Africa […]
[…] in America. It covers everything from the apparently trivial – campaigns to get kids still in primary school to snitch on their parents if they are using drugs – through to Cointelpro and all its successor projects. Redden discusses, among many other things: a law enforcement system dependent upon criminals licensed to operate by […]
[…] Neither Roy Hattersley, nor Anthony Howard, who reviewed this in the Daily Telegraph, noticed (or thought worth mentioning) a major feature of Falkender’s behaviour: she was doing drugs, speed (purple hearts, named by Donoughue), sleepers and tranquillisers. Donoughue shows that Wilson’s doctor, Joseph Stone, certainly gave her some of them. These days we know […]
