[…] particular, condemned Egyptian claims of US/UK collaboration in the Israeli war effort as, ‘the Big Lie’,(11) much evidence suggests extensive and active cooperation on the logistics and intelligence sides; and encouragement of the Israeli pre-emptive programme. Like Nasser in the North, the UK was also fighting a losing guerrilla war, in South Yemen. As […]
[…] chemical and biological weapons were ‘blowback’ from U.S. activities. Creating blowback is one of the things the CIA – no, let’s be fair: the U.S. military and intelligence agencies in general – are good at. AP reported on 6 January that the suspects in a series of bombings by Muslim extremists in Manila had […]
[…] authors have to writing a serious historical work. Have they never heard of St. Elmo’s Fire? Or could a simple explanation just be legitimate disinformation from Allied intelligence agencies? And what about the Germans’ known experiments with TV and radio-controlled anti-aircraft missiles? A top secret Nazi project is probably the least likely explanation. Some […]
[…] the Peoples Temple, she summarises the conspiracists’ point of view, which holds ‘that people in Jonestown were murdered by U.S. government agent agents – either military or intelligence. These agents,’ she continues, ‘committed the murders to conceal some other, more damaging information…’.(3) Well, fair enough. The definition certainly describes the point of view of […]
[…] text of a speech given by Fidel Castro the day after the shooting. Fidel’s speech is rather striking: 24 hours after the shooting he – or his intelligence people – had already spotted the attempts in the immediate aftermath to portray Oswald as pro-Soviet and pro-Castro. We get letters from Kruschev to Castro; we […]
[…] accused Rother Valley MP Kevin Barron of ‘the setting up and smearing of Arthur Scargill…..When Tam Dalyell and I were trying to expose Roger Windsor, the British intelligence agent in Arthur Scargill’s office during the attempt to smear him, the right hon. Member for Rother Valley was Maxwell’s man…..’ (15) Barron denied ever being […]
[…] latterly of USIS. It was Mr. Romerstein who accused me of recycling Soviet disinformation, and who, I would guess, is the source of the rumours in US intelligence circles that the KGB were funding Lobster. Another SIS memoir SIS buffs might like to check the Journal of Contemporary History, July 1995, in which former […]
[…] exaggerated his claims to have been a parachutist and the organiser of a display parachuting team run by the British Army. (And thus his other claims about intelligence operations in Northern Ireland should not be taken seriously…..) In 1990, in a piece called ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ in the Spectator (24 March […]
[…] I.R.A. as paid gunmen and saboteurs. Until now the few Americans involved have served mainly as instructors and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – […]
[…] untrue ….the FRU was prevented by RUC Special Branch from infiltrating loyalist murder gangs.’ (p. 32) (1) The exception to this was ex-Army Brian Nelson, the ‘ intelligence officer’ of the UDA, who directed the UDA’s killing of republicans for the FRU. Ingram suspects that Nelson never left the British Army (as does Paul […]
