[PDF file]: […] to tell the Chiefs of Staff in early 1948 that ‘there was no one to fight’, but eventually capitulated after pressure from Ernest Bevin, who changed his mind and accepted the line coming out of the Foreign Office,16 and a 13 There is now a large and growing – At last! It only took […]
[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), 2018, […]
[PDF file]: […] today would be a very different place. People will have their own views about what such ‘tipping points’ might have been, but the four below spring to mind. In them I sketch alternative courses of action which were available to the actors at the time, and which would have changed British history had they […]
[PDF file]: […] to blow a million minds simultaneously by pouring pure LSD into the reservoirs serving Birmingham. Detectives were horrified when they heard what the drug barons had in mind. The story, which was police-sourced, was written by Ed Laxton, the ghost writer for Operation Julie undercover officer Martyn Pritchard’s book, Busted! The Sensational Life-Story of […]
[…] account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he strays off familiar territory it goes wrong. He has a short chapter on mind control, for example, which in ten pages, citing only three books, one newspaper article and five websites (none of them serious sites on mind control issues), […]
[PDF file]: […] records, the invocation of “the ‘Who shot John?’ angle” can only refer to one thing: Kennedy’s assassination. The ambush in Dallas was the first thing on Nixon’s mind as he pressed the director for the agency’s Bay of Pigs files. The president intuited a connection between the failed invasion in 1961 and JFK’s assassination […]
[PDF file]: […] meeting.1 The British participants are: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Cabinet Office Demis Hassabis, CEO and Founder, Deep Mind Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor, The Economist David Lammy, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs Bernard Looney, CEO, BP plc Zanny Minton Beddoes, […]
[PDF file]: […] for LSD research. This, of course, sets off – admittedly faint – alarm bells that the HAFMC research had something to do with the CIA’s MK-Ultra ( mind control) project. MK-Ultra These alarm bells go off big time however, when O’Neill brings in Dr Jolyon West – the man who conducted the notorious experiment […]
[PDF file]: […] the February 2000 press release, mentioned above. The old mantra, ‘If you stick to the truth you won’t have to remember whatever lie you’ve told’ comes to mind. 9 have not done. My disagreement with him is that I don’t believe he could possibly now remember an unredacted name on an MI6 intelligence document […]
[PDF file]: […] Here, for example, is his memo to general secretary Larry Whitty dated 19 September 1986: ‘If you are able to see John Booth today please bear in mind the following: 1) NUJ Chapel is meeting this morning and we need to see the outcome of that meeting first; 2) John has briefed a reporter […]
[PDF file]: […] purely partisan political purposes or personal gain’. There had been what amounted to a ‘kind of privatization of national security’. (p. 253) Rudy Giuliani immediately springs to mind in this regard. This was to lead to her giving evidence at Trump’s first impeachment, a key witness whose testimony took 10 hours to deliver. But […]
