[…] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books, 1986, illustrates this was well as any single volume can. There has been […]
[PDF file]: […] The first, by Tim Tate, was reviewed by me at . 4 It is tempting to think that Golitsyn must have been sent to mess with Angleton’s mind. But all reports agree that he brought little useful material and talked such nonsense, it seems unlikely to me that the Soviets would have sent someone […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* By their omissions . . . Michael Gove, the outgoing Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, passes for an intellectual in today’s Conservative Party. In May he delivered a speech […]
[PDF file]: […] would be used to smear the Labour Party itself with the enthusiastic support of the Daily Express and the Daily Mail. We have to also bear in mind that if Labour had been re-elected in 1951, then we would have certainly seen a serious stepping-up of the British purge, extending it into the field […]
[PDF file]: […] slogan – or mission statement – ‘all conspiracy – no theory’; and that is on the front cover of Popular Paranoia, along with: ‘Conspiracy! UFOs! True Crime! Mind Control! Parapolitics!’; a pulp crime scene painting, sprawling woman, man with gun in hand; and the title, in pulp magazine typeface, Popular Paranoia. Is Thomas telling […]
[PDF file]: […] simultaneously trying to appease the anti-Castro Cubans and the US military/intelligence who wanted action; wanted to manage the ‘Cuba problem’ politically with the 1964 presidential election in mind; and cool the Cold War with the Soviets. There is more that could be said and other emphases that could be made. (No doubt some of […]
[PDF file]: […] this book who is not altogether captivated by Johnson is the transparency of his effort to associate himself with the Churchill myth, to plant in his reader’s mind the notion that he has the Churchill Factor. Let us look at his discussion of Conservative MPs attitudes towards Churchill in May 1940. They regarded him […]
[PDF file]: reformatted late 2023 The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with pictures […]
[…] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history, Zed Books, 1986, illustrates this was well as any single volume can. There has been […]
