[PDF file]: […] ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ (The Times, 12 October 2008). That million was or would be ultimately forthcoming from Big Tobacco. Just another of Blair’s great ideas, along with regenerating inner-cities […]
[PDF file]: […] When it comes to human behaviour, it is always risky to say that something has never happened, but I will stick my 1 Tony Undercastle, ‘Northern Rock boss to get £760,000 payoff’, Daily Telegraph 31 March 2008 77 Summer 2010 neck out and say that there is no instance of a director of a […]
[PDF file]: […] dossier was not the carefully judged, carefully written, honest assessment of sound intelligence that Blair, Campbell and Scarlett argued and that Hutton believed it to be.’ Marsh’s boss was Greg Dyke, who responded to the loss of his job as director general with the publication of Inside Story12 less than a year later. Like […]
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[PDF file]: Deep Kiss How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all Garrick Alder At the height of the Watergate scandal, in summer 1974, Dr Henry Kissinger tried to tell the world about an act of treason that had been committed by President Richard Nixon over the Vietnam War. The information was passed to […]
[…] IMG – organisations which attacked the CPGB. The only evidence – if you can call it that – on this we have is the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence […]
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[PDF file]: […] would call an extensive array of witnesses on his behalf. This list included Colonel Oliver North, President George Bush Snr., General von Tenda (the former head of BOSS the South African intelligence service), Gerrit Pretorious (formerly secretary to President Pik Botha of South Africa) and a range of other individuals including serving CIA officers. […]
[PDF file]: […] Further, in the ‘temper tantrum method’, the deranged style of manager ‘appears insulted or outraged. All of this in intended to distract from the fact that the boss has no idea what to do.’ Finally, in the world of the spooks we come to Gina Haspel, who: ‘. . . personally supervised the torture […]
