The origins of Civil Assistance? In the UK in 1974-75 a number of ‘private armies’ appeared, linked to retired senior military and intelligence figures. There were General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance, Colonel David Stirling’s GB75, and George Young’s Unison. (1) These groups formed in order to frustrate the impact of strike action in the […]
[…] of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee just days after the Zinoviev stunt. In Volume 1 we find the Committee’s comments on their dealings with the intelligence services. Para 103 ‘We asked the Foreign Secretary….to allow us access to relevant intelligence reports and assessments. This request was refused on the basis that intelligence information was not […]
There is an unmistakable thread running through America’s move eastward since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using their vast economic clout – in the form of loans, grants and sanctions – and backed by threatening military supremacy (to say nothing of the devious use of ‘unattributable’ mercenary groups such as the MPRI), … Read more
[…] Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: Iran-Contra, the godfather of terror and the bombing of Pan Am 103 (forthcoming from Red Door).81 The paragraphs below are from the introduction. I have not been following Lockerbie and this was new to me and thus, perhaps, […]
[PDF file]: […] Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: Iran-Contra, the godfather of terror and the bombing of Pan Am 103 (forthcoming from Red Door).81 The paragraphs below are from the introduction. I have not been following Lockerbie and this was new to me and thus, perhaps, […]
[PDF file]: […] system, and many of its senior members, emerge from Lockerbie with little credit. But, as the canny First Minister also says, the fate of Pan Am Flight 103 on that December evening is caught up in matters of high political import. The feelings of al-Megrahi’s family and friends come very low on the agendas […]
[PDF file]: […] When Sir David’s crusade was mentioned to him, he said: I actually think it is crass and insensitive to be waging a public campaign in this way. 103 I think we have a fair and and successful independent judiciary in this country. Let the judicial process run its course. There is no purpose to […]
[…] working on Lockerbie for a long time and he has concluded: ‘New Evidence and Logic have led me to rewrite 30 years of History. Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrated in flight over Lockerbie on December 21 1988 because of a massive structural failure due to well-known issues of metal fatigue in section 41 and […]
[PDF file]: […] a quote from Maheu, refusing to comment. 101 Jack Anderson, ‘Two Ghosts Haunt Nixon’s Campaign’, Washington Post, 24 January 1972. 102 Feldstein, Poisoning the Press, pp. 222-223. 103 In 1969, Pearson and Anderson had broken a story about Bebe Rebozo and Herbert Klein, Nixon’s communications director, visiting Continues at the foot of the next […]
[PDF file]: […] working on Lockerbie for a long time and he has concluded: ‘New Evidence and Logic have led me to rewrite 30 years of History. Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrated in flight over Lockerbie on December 21 1988 because of a massive structural failure due to well-known issues of metal fatigue in section 41 and […]
