[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) ‘Let a thousand initiatives bloom…’ While the piece in Lobster 24 was a (necessary) digression, treating of individual careers and various lurid allegations, … Read more
[…] the Minister was kept ‘out of the loop’ and not informed of the deal. Mrs Beckett was soon removed and replaced by Mr. Mandelson, Mr Draper’s former boss, who approved the other half of the proposed fix, the PowerGen-East Midlands combine. So what? What is wrong with government swapping merger approval in return for […]
[…] not naive. It is said that Dr. Savimbi was recruited by British intelligence 1964-66.(Covert Action No 4 April/May 1979). Even stronger are his links to Lonrho. Its boss, ‘Tiny’ Rowland, has visited Savimbi at the residence in Rabat, lent by the King of Morocco to Unita’s President; and Lonrho executives have visited Unita’s headquarters […]
The Brittle Society Alarmists, like Naomi Wolf, have been exaggerating the degree to which the US, and by implication the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has … Read more
