[PDF file]: […] social and welfare expenditure (a commentary that the US did not necessarily offer other countries). Simon returned to Washington and reported to Ford the outcome of his secret talks; Ford contacted the head of the IMF, Johannes Witteveen, and suggested that the IMF send a team of advisers to London. This ensured maximum publicity […]
[PDF file]: […] Germany to talk to the Nazi leaders on a mission which had received the unofficial approval of Neville Chamberlain, who afterward offered to pay Bryant’s expenses from secret service funds. Unfinished Victory was bitterly anti-Semitic. It blamed the Jews, and specifically Kurt Eisner, the leader of the revolution in Bavaria, for the Council Revolution […]
[PDF file]: […] and the global partnership of McKinsey and Co, I do so with a clear-eyed understanding of it all. A little further on he comments: The dirty little secret of Davos is that it’s one enormous business opportunity. Financial and industrial titans come not primarily to plot social and political control but to make money, […]
[PDF file]: […] I now can’t remember how I first came across the LBJ-dunit thesis. Perhaps it was the reference to it in Michael Milan’s The Squad: the US Government’s Secret Alliance with Organized Crime.7 The pseudonymous author of that book I discount James Files’ story. That, as Garrick Alder has shown, is an invention. See . […]
[PDF file]: […] corporate policing activities. OSS was essentially the kernel of what the CIA would become – what Philip Agee called ‘capitalism’s invisible army’ (one ought to add its ‘secret police’, too).1 6 The creation of the CIA and the origins of the ‘Cold War’ are inseparable. The CIA was founded in 1947, the same year […]
[PDF file]: […] Powell, Downing Street chief of staff. Nor Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. More importantly still, I have not discovered from either the Joint Intelligence Committee or the Secret Intelligence Service that the prime minister was misrepresenting their intelligence. This failure to challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service in effect colluded with […]
[PDF file]: WHITE MALICE The CIA and the covert recolonization of Africa Susan Williams London: C. Hurst & Co., 2021, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay This is a very big book, 517 pages of text and another 70 of notes, sources and index. Williams’ previous book was Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and White […]
[PDF file]: […] he might have what we now call Alzheimer’s disease (from which his father had suffered).1 This is too prosaic for some and they keep looking for the secret scandal which they know must be the real explanation for Wilson’s departure. The Times gave us the reminiscences of a barrister, Sir Desmond de Silva, who, […]
[PDF file]: […] to a famous investigation into the origins of the 1991 North Wales care homes scandal conducted by the late Richard Webster and reported in his book The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt.14 Smith and Burnett follow Webster’s argument that people mounting a moral crusade against child abuse can […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared […]
