[…] the US media, which ran with the Watergate story and all its ramifications in the 1970s, ended up, less than a decade later, becoming accomplices to the murder of American nuns in Central America. Parry’s account of the major media’s timidity under corporate and political pressure may turn out to be the more important […]
[…] and The Lost Crusader touch on issues that return with each morning’s newspaper: is a foreign secret intelligence service bound by international conventions governing such matters as murder, illegal imprisonment and the overthrow of governments? Is the word of the Director of Central Intelligence to be believed? Is it proper for a foreign intelligence […]
Larry O’Hara See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) A left turn for the NF? Having described some of the multiple policy initiatives undertaken by the National Front in part 3 … Read more
Books Alan Turing: the enigma of intelligence Andrew Hughes (Unwin 1985) If you have a chance, read Alan Turing: the enigma of intelligence by Andrew Hughes (Unwin 1985). Now in paperback, Hughes’ excellent biography rescues from near obscurity a true eccentric genius. It is of interest to us because of Turing’s essential work on the … Read more
[…] of independence in 1965,’ said the Guardian,1 January 1996, reporting official papers released under 30-year rule. The ‘Brabant Killers’ story – the campaign of motiveless robberies and murder conducted in Belgium between 1982 and 1985, widely assumed to be an attempt to destabilise the government – revisited in the Sunday Telegraph, 26 November 1995. […]
The attack on the USS Liberty The short piece in Lobster 45 on the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was curiously timely. Soon after it appeared Captain Ward Boston, senior legal counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the incident broke his silence and stated, inter alia: ‘There is no question in … Read more
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti,Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon Winter … Read more
[…] property developer Bill Harrison and a private detective Christopher More, who has since been jailed for assisting his son to flee from Britain and escape from a murder hunt. The plotters successfully conspired to steal the income tax records of their political opponents, a crime not previously recorded in the two hundred year history […]
[…] to the jury do appear to follow a tradition of exculpating the establishment at all costs. In the Jeremy Thorpe trial, Mr Justice Cantley described alleged potential murder victim Norman Scott as follows: ‘He is a fraud. He is a sponger. He is a whiner. He is a parasite. But, of course, he could […]
[…] the creative accounting of their bankers, Sindona and Calvi.) The final part of the plan was for Gelli to foment the use of political violence – bombings, murder and kidnappings – and then, when he had created sufficient chaos, make use of propaganda designed to prepare Italians psychologically for the new era of Fascism. […]
