Greg Philo and David Miller Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education, 2001, £16.99 I asked the publisher for this on the basis of the title and the authors: Greg Philo has written many books for the Glasgow University Media Group (Bad News, More Bad News etc.) and David Miller is the author of Don’t Mention the … Read more
[…] that he ‘has been a long standing member of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding’. Conclusion These are just some of the right-wing and intelligence efforts to suborn the trade union and Labour Party Right in recent decades. So, should anyone take notice of any of the above? Radical trade unionists […]
[…] US War Department. “The solution was very simple. If State would not approve immigration due to derogatory OMGUS (Office of Military Government US) reports, the JOIA (Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency) would change the reports.” Date-line Washington: anti-Semitism and the airwaves Lars-Erik Nelson in Foreign Policy No.65, Winter 1986 Since Reagan took office Radio Liberty, […]
[…] Colonel John Alexander, who is now NATO advisor on non-lethal weapons. As was reported in the previous Lobster 28, Alexander has consulted with both British and American intelligence agencies since Armen’s interest in him. Armen is undeterred by this harassment and his research is continuing. He has recently received 2,500 pages of declassified material […]
Edited by James H. Fetzer Catfeet Press, Chicago Distributed in the UK by The Eurospan Group, 3 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8LU at £29.50 (hb) £14.95 (pb) This is a very important contribution to the primary research on the Kennedy assassination. It contains essays which prove (a) that the Zapruder film was substantially edited … Read more
[…] election, and most important of all, Sean O’Callaghan. O’Callaghan figures in McDonald’s account as an ex IRA man, but perhaps a better characterisation would be ex Irish intelligence agent. He has become ‘a pivotal behind the scenes player’, acting as liaison between Trimble and the loyalist paramilitaries and playing a key role in devising […]
[…] a camera with a long lens can seem like a gun as it is pointed over a wall. The chances are that he was working for British Intelligence.’ Geraghty forthrightly condemns the Heath Government’s hard line policy, providing the fascinating detail that senior ministers had urged ‘an unlawful “shoot-to-kill” policy’ on the Army, but […]
[…] to them; on other issues that clearly bore on the question of war, like decolonisation, Europe, and the economy; on possible extraneous influences, like business and the intelligence community; on strands of Labour opinion outside the parliamentary party – trade unions, Fabians, pressure groups, and at constituency level; and a little further back in […]
[…] the low-level functionary portrayed in his famous televised confession. Before becoming a journalist, Bob Woodward, of Woodward and Bernstein, had been a U.S. Navy ‘briefer’ with considerable intelligence connections, among them Alexander Haig. ‘Deep Throat’ was a device to conceal the fact that Haig was leaking to Woodward. (Or: Haig was ‘Deep Throat’.)’ One […]
[…] eye-opening but unsuccessful spell in the real economy, into retirement as a country gentleman – that kind of rebel! Notes 14 There is nothing which throws light on the report in The Times of 2 April 2002 that Lord Carrington the Foreign Secretary had ignored reports of invasion fears coming from the Joint Intelligence Committee.
