[…] in a side-bar on the sixties: ‘Britain becomes a battleground for agents working for Smith and the South Africans. Harold Wilson’s Cabinet Office is infiltrated. Rhodesian agents murder one of their own operatives who has turned against them in London, and another agent is killed by British intelligence after they and Special Branch monitor […]
[…] David Kelly was a ‘Walter Mitty character’ must have made Colin Wallace smile. For this is how the MOD briefed journalists about Wallace during his trial for murder in 1981. Corinne Souza pointed out to me that the only people using the Walter Mitty expression these days are spin-doctors. Notes 1 < http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2003/issue2/english/art4.htmlxt issue […]
[…] synchronicity, implying causality without demonstrating it. Take another example. The author discusses the wartime OSS propaganda career of the writer Hans Habe and links this to the murder in 1968 of Habe’s daughter, Marina. He writes: ‘Marina had been known to the Manson family and thus they would have presumably known of her famous […]
Covert Action CAIB trundles on. I haven’t always agreed with CAIB’s line. With others on the U.S. left, it used to seem reluctant to deal with the real nature of the Soviet Union. Having got to he point where America has become Amerika, many American radicals have been unable to acknowledge that the other Superpower … Read more
[…] behind a sign that read ‘US GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS PROHIBIT DISCUSSION OF THIS ORGANISATION OR FACILITY’. Its sabotage operations were run by station chief Theodore ‘Ted’ Shackley, who had led the Brigade 2506 amphibious landings at the Bay of Pigs and organised Operation Mongoose, a series of covert actions that included attempts to murder Fidel Castro.
Books Secret Contenders Melvin Beck (Sheridan Square Publications, US 1984) The CIA Christmas party of 1958 found 48 year old all-American boy, Melvin Beck, getting the offer of overseas work with Clandestine Services. He “struck like a hungry bass” and landed in Havana in 1959, just as the first Russian freighter was arriving. Fairly early … Read more
[…] revelatory, one way or the others. (He was acquitted in 1988 of involvement in the Bologna bombing for lack of evidence, and in February this year of murder charges relating to a 1969 bombing. See Daily Telegraph 21/2/89. Ed.) For Signorelli’s early affiliations with ON, see Ferraresi p.62; for his AN backing see Flamini […]
by Peter Padfield Papermac, London, 1993, £12.99 There are now several versions of the Hess affair. One is the official story – a politician whose star is one the wane, attempts a spectacular comeback, fails, is locked up for forty years and finally commits suicide in despair. Another is the double theory, first outlined in … Read more
[…] once again’. The only Officials who might have been involved with the UCA if it had existed were the element that went IRSP with Costello after the murder of Joe McCann. The few survivors, whom I met regularly, have no recollection of any such organisation let alone meeting them. The leaflets were leaked to […]
US bioweapons in Korea? In Lobster 44, p. 27, I noted the ongoing controversy about the alleged use of biological weapons by the United States during the Korean War: material from Soviet archives appeared to show that the ‘evidence’ of said biological weapons had been faked to embarrass the Americans; but this ‘evidence’ has since … Read more
