[…] 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 the case of why the Americans attacked Iraq, for example, our knowledge of the actual decision-making process is growing by the week as the military and intelligence bureaucracies leak in the great game of avoiding the blame for the disaster; and the knowledge that the actual evidence is increasingly available diminishes Porter’s discussion […]
Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem … 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
Robert Fisk London: Fourth Estate, 2005, £25.00 This very fine book runs to more than 1,300 pages, is well footnoted, referenced and indexed, carries a helpful bibliography and is written by one of the most fluent, knowledgeable and thoughtful journalists of our time. That part of its dedication is to Fisk’s parents ‘who taught … Read more
[…] point. Unfortunately, where Crawford points to collusion in a detailed way, he points to what we already know, for example, about Brian Nelson’s role as a UDA intelligence officer but also, in arms procurement from South Africa for what became the Combined Loyalist Military Command. There is much that is useful in Crawford’s book, […]
[…] Sir) Roger Hollis, and Norman Reddaway representing the IRD. At the end of it, Brook instructed Hollis to make available to the Foreign Office, with security collateral, intelligence about communist malpractices in the unions that could be used by IRD. This led, among other things, to the ousting of Foulkes and Haxell from the […]
The Men with the Guns G.F. Newman (Sphere, London 1984) I’ve got a lot of time for G.F. Newman. He’s written some of the best, sharpest, things about contemporary Britain: the Law and Order series and the Terry Sneed novels are the obvious places to start. But this – perhaps because of the shift to … Read more
[…] Lander, Director-General of MI5. Our fearless journalist reports that ‘Sir Steven had clearly been shaken by cruel and untimely remarks made by Tom King, chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.’ Poor baby! How fortunate that EYE SPY! was there to sympathise. Unnamed fearless reporter continues: ‘The Director-General should never have been put in […]
