The Christic Institute’s allegations that there has been a ‘ secret team’ of CIA and ex CIA personnel operating since the early 1960s right through to the present day have had a surprising amount of publicity in Britain considering that this is the kind of conspiracy theorising which is normally anathema to our straight […]
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 […]
A man with Friends The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s plot to kill the Pope Nigel West HarperCollins, London, 2000, £19.99 Let’s dispose of the ‘Third Secret’ nonsense. West claims that Pope John – the Polish Pope – was told the ‘third secret’ of the Fatima revelations; and that this ‘third […]
[…] moment those smears that he was a nobody. He knows more secrets than any 20 British intelligence operatives who spend their time sitting at desks poring over secret reports. Peter Wright was out in the field – doing spectacular things. And don’t believe those smears that he’s a ‘traitor’ to the land of his […]
PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of […]
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s […]
We know that torture is going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in […]
[…] Freedom of Information Acts. Published: Documenti Diplomatici Italiani (DDI) Documents on German Foreign Policy (DGFP) Nicholas Bethell, The War Hitler Won (1972) Anthony Cave Brown, “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies (1988) Richard Cockett, Twilight of Truth (1989) John Costello, Ten Days that Saved the West (1991) Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of […]
[…] ring of the 1930s. A typical example was Anthony Glees’ book on ‘British intelligence and Communist Subversion’: “Rothschild (was) remarkably intimate with people subsequently proven to be secret Communists, and Blunt was a major Communist mole”. (1) In a gesture of loyalty, one of his old ‘pupils’, Robin Butler, now the Cabinet Secretary, organised […]
[…] by the entrance and my officers went to evacuate the people.” Despite the arrest of the FSB officers by the police, they were quietly released when the secret service’s Moscow headquarters intervened. The Observer reports that the next day, in an attempt to cover-up the discovery, “the FSB in Moscow announced that there had […]
