[…] acquaintance of Hakim’s.(13) One of Tabatabai’s relatives helped set up the contact during a trip to the United States. On July 21 1986 North wrote to his boss Admiral Poindexter: ‘George Cave will proceed to Frankfurth to meet w/Tabatabai, the cousin of the man I met w/here. T is allegedly well connected to Rafsanjani […]
[…] a volume of the House Select Committee on Assassinations but I don’t have the reference at hand. If someone can supply it I would be grateful). Inside BOSS, South Africa’s Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) “BOSS assigned me to monitor the activities of Richard Gibson (exposed in 1969 as a CIA agent), […]
[…] 51, March 1981, there was this snippet: ‘Why all the fuss about the Panorama programme on British Intelligence? Eventually there was just one cut — Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, former freelance journalist, in a pre-title sequence: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football […]
[…] died recently thinking he set up the Information Research Department. As I have shown elsewhere, he was thoroughly manipulated by the Foreign Office – just like his boss at the time, Ernest Bevin, come to that. This short (142 pages) book contains 47 pages of Mayhew reminiscing about his involvement with IRD. His recollections […]
[…] Chequers for a working meeting with Mrs Thatcher, after her election. But perhaps the key political figure was the late Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian Premier and Langemann’s boss. Strauss was a close friend of Alexandre de Marenches and was a frequent visitor to the SDECE’s headquarters during Marenches’ time. The Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, the political trust […]
[…] involved in the so-called ‘October Surprise’ events (which has). The part of the deposition reproduced by PFP alleges, as the subhead has it, ‘Richard Brenneke puts mob boss John Gotti and CIA boss Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.’ The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel […]
[…] the plant. (31) One worker, Dobie Hatley, who had raised safety concerns, was pressed to take part in the falsification of records required by the NRC: ‘My boss called me in and told me that we had to get the books to match . If we did it right, it probably would have taken […]
[…] to get some documents for him, Labour Party policy documents, the kind that would have been sent to the Soviet Embassy on request. Betty Boothroyd told her boss; her boss called in MI5. But the MI5 officer misread her, and tried to recruit her to spy on some Labour MPs. She refused. MI5 did […]
[…] of the day, his duty would be clear, he would show it to one of three people: the Prime Minister himself, the Cabinet Secretary or his immediate boss, the Foreign Secretary. I believe from things Maurice said that something may have come into his hands and that he showed it to the Foreign Secretary, […]
[…] the chair of Labour’s National Executive Committee in 2005-2006 and a key figure in New Labour’s North-East redoubt for many years. Dougie and Wendy and BAP Mendelsohn’s boss in planning the next election is International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander. His sister, Wendy, recently assumed the leadership of the party in Scotland – like their […]
