[PDF file]: […] other words. Archegos has gone bust, owing various banks $10 billion. So far, so rather routine. The author of a piece in the Telegraph described what Archegos’ boss Bill Hwang had been doing – his ‘trading strategy’. ‘Hwang was mostly trading through total return swaps. As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They […]
[PDF file]: […] events of 1974-76, the so-called ‘Wilson plots’? * The so-called private armies episode of 1974 and 1975 gets only a paragraph on George Young’s Unison. * The BOSS operations against Peter Hain and Jeremy Thorpe are dismissed, as is Gordon Winter. Andrew describes him, on somebody else’s say-so, as unreliable, and quotes an MI5 […]
[PDF file]: […] $100,000 . . . Bebe Rebozo . . . maintained a private fund for Nixon to use as he wished.’ 38 Haldeman’s assistant Lawrence Higby testified his boss had spoken of a $400,000 secret fund controlled by Rebozo. On April 17, 1973, Nixon urged Memorandum from FBI Director Hoover to Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust […]
[PDF file]: […] of his sexual conquests, Campbell had been introduced by singer Frank Sinatra. She was a friend of Sinatra’s Mafia associate John Roselli and mistress to Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana. In other words, President Kennedy was unwittingly sharing a consort with one of America’s top underworld leaders and a key target of his 40 […]
[PDF file]: […] was himself the victim of various smears, plots and coup proposals in which MI5 officers were intimately involved. Wilson was convinced that the South African secret service, BOSS, was also involved. He was right: they were allowed to operate in Britain without any interference at this time because, as one of their (unnamed) agents […]
[PDF file]: […] Lisburn, Peter Broderick, is quoted as saying that he had seen the document and approved it for release. ‘This week, for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at […]
[PDF file]: […] have been thwarted, if only Trump had not been betrayed by so many of those around him. Mitch McConnell was busy waging ‘a behind-the-scenes war against the Boss’ and Trump was absolutely right when he described him as ‘a dumb son of a bitch’. (p. 240) After the election, Navarro prepared his own report […]
[PDF file]: […] presidents who have failed miserably in office, we never had one that had a long career of fraud and deceit before being elected. We elected a crime boss who has no common decency.’ (p. xii) What he has trouble comprehending is that millions of people voted for this man and still support him. Smock’s […]
[PDF file]: […] to this book represents peanuts and the danger is that those without experience might misjudge it. I had occasion recently to look again at Gordon Winter’s Inside BOSS and Peter Hain’s book on the attempt by BOSS and our own spooks to frame him for the Putney Bank snatch. There’s not a lot of […]
[PDF file]: […] majority two years later with his ‘Get Brexit Done’ pitch. Jones interviews many Labour participants and blends the results with his activist understanding, concluding that his former boss, McDonnell, was ‘Labour’s lost leader’. He provides no index and leaves the hardback reader to input on screen footnotes for which he only offers URL links. […]
