[…] either not shown or did not use.’ (Brook-Shepherd clearly implies in his letter that material was not shown to Bennett.) David Stafford raised the suggestion that Winston Churchill was probably involved. ‘The report mentioned the involvement of Joseph Ball and Sir Desmond Morton, but did not mention their intimate relationship with Churchill. Stafford says […]
Part One A to B See also: Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) Georg Simmel said ‘The purpose of secrecy is above all protection. […]
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood (New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) Honorable Men […]
[…] little man. Kent began keeping copies of ‘interesting’ US diplomatic cables for his own ‘private collection’. He eventually had over 1500. They included correspondence between Roosevelt and Churchill about assistance the US which was then neutral could give the UK. Kent had also requested a move to the US Embassy in Berlin […]
Through The Looking Glass: British Foreign Policy In An Age Of Illusions Anthony Verrier (Cape, London 1983) This will probably turn out to be an important book, maybe even a little landmark in the (scanty) literature on British foreign policy since the war. So far it has been largely ignored by the literary/political establishment, receiving […]
[…] Reports of the Committees (Washington: GPO, 1867). Quoted in Rae Allen Billington, Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (New York: MacMillan, 1974), p. 568; Ward Churchill, A Little Matter of Genocide (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997), p. 234. Smith’s objectivity was challenged at the time, but today even defenders of the […]
Reflections On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: reflections on the consequences of U. S. imperial arrogance and criminality Ward Churchill Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £11.90, p/back After a short and densely documented essay on the slaughter which has accompanied the formation and expansion of the United States of America, and some speculation on the […]
[…] been one of the two greatest loves of Shaw’s life (the other being William Formyduval with whom he lived). Sir Michael introduced Shaw to London society, to Churchill, and may even have introduced him to Peter MONTGOMERY, Anthony Blunt’s lover. As to Sir Michael’s two addresses, Vaynol was his country estate near the town […]
[…] me. This was that when the Hess affair blew up Pilcher found out what had happened and made no secret of his disgust at the way the Churchill Coalition had handled the peace offer. As a result of his indiscretion he was court-martialled and whisked off to a remote house in Scotland where he […]
[…] aims: to undertake long-term planning as part of a ‘Post-War New Deal’ and to provide an platform for debate on war aims as a loyal opposition to Churchill. Probably because the Committee included a wide spectrum of political figures, including left-wingers like Michael Foot and Konni Zilliacus, a myth has grown that Hulton was […]
