[…] the Open Democracy web site, and Michael Maclay, the ex-Foreign Office man who became Mandelson’s colleague at London Weekend Television before helping run the MI6-linked Hayklut private intelligence organisation. Parliamentary Secretary in Derry Irvine’s Lord Chancellor’s Department, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, also joined the BAP in 1987. She now serves on its UK advisory […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Murrin told Sir Peter Blaker, ‘An alternative funding source really needs to be lined up but I can only leave that to you. My own network of intelligence is now building up and I would expect results after the summer.’ 30 July Owen Oyston resigned as chairman of Red Rose Radio. September Oyston bought […]
[…] Terrorism Industry: the experts and institutions that shape our view of Terror, written with Jerry O’Sullivan (for Pantheon Books, New York, 1990) an examination of the think-tanks, intelligence agents and assorted media manipulators who have attempted to develop ‘terrorism’ as a more cogent focus of political loyalty than the tattered remnants of its predecessor, […]
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
[…] death in January, I’ve started getting books from Andy Winiarczyk at the Last Hurrah Bookshop. The Last Hurrah specialises in books on JFK and related assassination and intelligence areas and publishes regular catalogs. Write or call Andy at 937 Memorial Avenue, Williamsport, PA 17701, USA: phone (international code) plus 717.327.9338. Probe, the newsletter of […]
Extracts from the Testimony of Harlan Girard Managing Director, International Committee for the Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons, before the Human Subjects Subcommittee, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Washington DC, 19 October 1997. In 1982 an obscure government office called the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future published a study called ‘Future Agenda’. The obscure chairman of … Read more
[…] drug and other criminal activities the Nicaraguan bishops had complained back in 1978. Equally disastrous was the initial decision to leave oversight of the Contras to Argentine intelligence officers, for whom the drug-financing of operations was a way of life. On March 16, 1998, in response to Webb’s allegations, the CIA Inspector-General admitted that […]
[…] would announce the creation of a new housing inspectorate. Lucas passed this on to his affected clients. He gave me other examples of what he called ‘… intelligence which in market terms would be worth a lot of money.’ The firm of GJW obtained advance word on the moratorium on gas-fired power stations which […]
