The Diana inquest – the people’s verdict? Well we now know who didn’t do it. It wasn’t the Royals. Not that they and their associates don’t have past form when it comes to helping family members into the next world. George V was given a fatal injection on his deathbed in order that news of … Read more
[…] it after all. He argued this in a long, detailed piece which I declined to print in Lobster 26. I don’t buy the thesis at all. Never mind anything else, buying into that means accepting, as the Warren Commission did, two shots out of three on a moving target with a crappy mail order […]
[…] I find this quite disturbing.’ Mr Hepworth-Lloyd has contacted the police over the suspected theft of the voting cards.(4) Resident Frederick Wright is 73 and of sound mind; he ‘nominated’ someone called Jonathan Ellwood. I asked Mr Wright if he knew Mr Ellwood. The answer was an immediate ‘no’. Two other residents nominated Mary […]
[…] Russians. The KGB did the same with Russian students. The intelligence value was nil. In the early sixties the CIA placed a lot of hopes on ‘ mind control’, experimenting with drugs, hypnosis and programming a la ‘Manchurian Candidate’. The most bizarre episode in Beck’s book concerns an attempt by a CIA shrink to […]
[…] 2 Though I still don’t buy Walter Bowart’s Satan’s Slaves Meet Black Helicopters thesis, the winter 1995 issue of Unclassified offers one of the footnotes Bowart’s Operation Mind Control 2 cries out for, an article about a CIA-sponsored paedophile group called ‘The Finders’. The tale is bizarre, but it contains names, dates and documentation […]
[…] himself? Mosley had an undistinguished First World War. According to his son, Nicholas, this always rankled: he ‘had seen little active combat, and this played on his mind’. His subsequent entry into the House of Commons as a Conservative MP owed considerably less to his war record than it did to his affairs with […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
The Cecil King coup plot as precursor to Gordon Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ Students of parapolitics are divided as to the seriousness of the Cecil King coup plot of 1968 to establish what he called a ‘businessman’s government’, a permanent coalition government dominated by the right of the Labour Party but with unelected … Read more
[…] Talb. After lengthy sessions with CIA personnel, the Maltese shopkeeper who had previously recognised a photograph of Talb — a 35 year-old Palestinian — apparently changed his mind and fingered a Libyan airline official in his fifties. This identification, along with allegations — later disproved — that a Swiss-made timing device for the Lockerbie […]
[…] the standard academic studies of domestic Italian post-war politics the ‘apertura’ merits merely a line or two. But with hindsight, and the recent events in Italy in mind, this is surely an area which will repay further study. This reminds me again of how important it is to re-read everything. I haven’t looked at […]
