[…] hinted that something might turn up from an unexpected quarter. Turner suspects that Farewell America was that something; that although the book was put together by French intelligence people, it was the contact with Kostikov which led to it. The pseudonymous writer of the book was Thomas Buchanan, author of the 1964 Who Killed […]
[…] MI6 no. 2, George Kennedy Young, loomed large in the imagination of the section of the British left which was interested in the political activities of former intelligence officers. His activities with Unison in 1973-5 remain unclear but here John Andrews describes the group which succeeded it, Tory Action. Lobster 19 contained an autobiographical […]
[…] Riley has written elsewhere at greater length. Riley is determined that Philby, while in Beirut, continued to work for what he insists on calling the RIS (Russian Intelligence Service) but has virtually no evidence to back up this view. There is some speculation about the allegiance of Lord Rothschild which has been floating around […]
[…] two further occasions in 1983. 26 NOV 72 Serial No: D 7364 C. I. A. This Certificate of Credentials is issued under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is requested that the bearer be afforded the necessary help to enable him to satisfactorily discharge his duties. 15 November 1971: Harold Wilson visits […]
[…] entry for Searchlight summarises extensively the growing recognition on the ‘left’ of that journal’s involvement in dirty tricks, disinformation and role as an agency of the British intelligence services. But Mercer is surprisingly gentle with them, and should have commented upon and documented some of their frequent deliberate falsifications, gross inaccuracies and smears. The […]
[…] that has been used to cloak research and applications of mind-control activity (emphasis added). Given Scott Jones’ status and his years of access to high level military, intelligence and political circles in the US, this is extremely interesting. But if he knows anything substantial about these mind control experiments, to my knowledge he has […]
In Parish Notices in the last issue I wrote ‘there isn’t much in this issue about the economic situation because there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said, for example by Larry Elliot in The Guardian every week.’ Well, I changed my mind about that and here are the bits I found … Read more
[…] Candidate a reality. For the pulse-modulated transmitters could also carry information placed on the signal: it could be modulated to send words to the brain. An expendable intelligence asset, programmed by remote hypnosis, in a post-hypnotic state, could be activated by these means, to carry out orders directed to him or her by-passing his […]
[…] chance meeting between the two comes to the attention of MI5, and Blunt is instructed to befriend Losey and monitor his activities on behalf of the American intelligence services. In doing so, he comes to admire Losey’s principled political views and his refusal to name names, unlike many of his compatriots. As their friendship […]
[…] issues, then there is some conspiring that goes on in CFR, not to mention in the Committee for Economic Development, the National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.” G. William Domhoff, “Who made American Foreign Policy 1945-1963?” in David Horowitz ed. Corporations and the Cold War, (Monthly Review Press, New York, 1969) p34n […]
