[…] 1977 the NAP was in the coalition government and controlled the Education Ministry (in order to terrorise students) and the Customs Ministry (which facilitated the flow of drugs, guns and terrorist cadre in and out of Turkey.) Then in September 1980 the military took over again and the Wolves were banned. They’d served their […]
Rogue State: A guide to the world’s only superpower William Blum Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, 2000, $16.95 Globalize This! The battle against the World Trade Organization and corporate rule eds. Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach Common Courage Press, Monroe, Maine, 2000, $15.95 I have lumped these together partly because they are both published … Read more
[…] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO ’ replied: ‘Ah yes, but you […]
[…] OMS episode McGill “created and directed a highly efficient private intelligence service, investigating not only all forms of subversion, including communism, but also the international traffic in drugs and the traffic in women and children”. (69) White was recruited by McGill and by 1924 was running Section D of McGill’s operation. (70) OMS appeared […]
This is an interim report, a sketch of some research since Lobster 11. Lobster 11 began as attempts to check some of the material provided by Colin Wallace, and, quite quickly, turned into a self-education course on the 1970s and the British Right. When we put No.11 out we had done enough reading to know … Read more
MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more
[…] which appeared in Steamshovel Press Number Nine. The two pieces are a reworking of some of the information we have on that fuzzy, hearsay-laden area in which drugs (especially psychedelics), the intelligence agencies and mind control programmes overlapped. In the second part the author, Greg Krupey, reminds us of the claims made by Timothy […]
[…] to work. Our conversations were affable. I took him fresh fruit which he was allowed to eat only during the visit (in case they were impregnated with drugs!) He showed sincerity and loyalty to his own beliefs — which I did not share — and did not try to help himself into an early […]
A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about […]
[…] Its aggrieved depositors and creditors began an unprecedented action last year against the Bank of England for failing to regulate a bank known for its involvement in drugs, money laundering, funny accounting and as a financial conduit for assorted intelligence agencies. Last year the court heard of a meeting 1989 between Lord Callaghan and […]
