[…] May 1977 Livingstone became GLC representative for Hackney North. A few weeks later he was selected as Labour Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Hampstead defeating Vincent Cable (currently a Liberal Democrat MP) in a contest for this position. Ted Knight became PPC for Hornsey at the same time. They would both have thought […]
The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) <www.statesecrets.co.uk/index.html> Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter … Read more
[…] Knight, he demonstrates a general point, that ‘MI5 colluded with British fascism in the interwar years’. Lewis examines the role of the police in the Battle of Cable Street, and in implementing the POA. He stresses that the POA was used more against the left than the right, and argues that the actions of […]
[…] Books (!) criticising the Russian military operation begun in December to quell the secessionist rebellion in Chechnya.’ Watch what you write, old boy! Alien autopsy? The Murdoch cable Fox TV network ran an hour-long show based on the Ray Santilli-sponsored footage of the alleged autopsy performed on a dead alien at Fort Worth Air […]
[…] arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. No evidence has yet surfaced to the contrary. But it seems hard to believe that the National Security Agency, whose monitoring of international cable traffic first brought the deals to Defence Secreatary Casper Weinberger’s attention in 1985, picked up no trace of the bank’s activity in this regard.(10) According to […]
It is intended that this list should include all Parliamentary (Lords and Commons) personalities who are named as proposing an Anglo-German peace deal after the outbreak of war or as being in touch with the Nazi regime either directly or through neutrals in pursuit of such an accommodation. Sources: Unpublished: Home Office, (HO) Foreign Office … Read more
[…] in Washington by Moonies under KCIA direction; (123) the establishment of numerous UC-controlled businesses in South Korea with Park’s support; (124) the use of official Korean embassy cable channels by Pak; (125) and the mutual KCIA-UC involvement in the founding of the International Federation for Victory over Communism (IFVC) and its U.S. affiliate, the […]
[…] and severity with which the prosecution pursued the case. He also offers some explanation on pp. 45-6. On 25th October 1953 the Sydney Morning Telegraph published a cable from its London correspondent, Donald Horne, about a police and Home Office plan to ‘smash homosexuality in London’. The details presented to the Australian readers were […]
[…] into training and recognition aides by a team of Japanese speakers and experts. Here Young’s peacetime experience as sub-editor on American and British papers, and as a cable editor with British United Press, stood him in good stead. Young often quoted the dictum of his C-in-C, Lieutenant General Sir William Platt, for whom he […]
[…] saw Marx’s two investment companies go belly up, Neil Bush moved into the media business with help from, amongst others, Bush Team 100 donor Bill Daniels, a cable TV executive who gave Bush a $60,000 job with TransMedia Communciations of Houston. More recently, he has used his media knowledge in a new business venture, […]
