[…] 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 […]
[…] but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Schlesinger’s book for at least 5 years, and five years ago the ‘apertura’ to the left wouldn’t have meant anything to me. In the light of ex BOSS agent Gordon Winter’s remark that BOSS had the Kennedy assassination marked down to ‘a General named Walters’ (see Lobster 7), this latest fragment about Walters is […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] are based on a large study commissioned by UNESCO. This latter fact may give some hint of UNESCO’s current unpopularity with the UK and US governments. ‘ BOSS in Britain’ James Barber, African Affairs, July 1983 A valuable compilation of the various reports and incidents involving BOSS (South Africa’s Bureau of State Research) going […]
