[…] sensitive.’ His notes include allegations of corrupt behaviour by Councillor Frank McGrath, deputy Labour leader of Preston Council. He noted his press contacts as Andrew Jennings of BBC and Roger Ratcliffe of Sunday Times. . 1984 Murrin reported meeting Tom Cato, a Tory businessman from Fleetwood, who was a client of Chris More’s detective […]
[…] anti-Soviet propaganda and espionage campaign into other European countries. A direct invitation to that is being issued by BIS agents through publications and by the radio corporation BBC. My attention in this case was caught by an article published in the London newspaper Financial Times where on one hand conclusions are drawn concerning the […]
[…] financial civil service with the current crisis? I doubt it. But there are odd flickers of rethinking going on within the almost brain-dead NuLab. Interviewed on the BBC, Foreign Secretary David Milliband en passant referred to manufacturing being twice the size of the financial sector – something no NuLab minister would have said or […]
[…] a bad few months for the British media’s relationship with the psy-ops boys in SIS. First the BBC’s David Shukman fronted a piece apparently planted on the BBC by them which claimed that an African company Oryx was a source of funds for al-Qaeda. Oops! Name confusion. Cue large legal action by Oryx.(4) Or […]
[…] own merits “According to the UN, opium production peaked in 2004 to near record levels of 4,200 metric tonnes – nearly 90% of the world market” ( BBC News, 4/26/05, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4487433.stm). The former dominance of the Burma drug trade by the Taiwan-based Guomindang (GMD) has now been replaced in press accounts by the control […]
[…] Seasoned non-spook diplomats were always annoyed some spook analysis was based on recycling overseas newspaper articles (open source). The modern equivalent is mining the net. See also BBC Ten O clock News, ‘Online Jihadism’, 25 October 2006 BAA rather ruined the airport safety message with point 2 of its Important Information to travellers, reading: […]
[…] Office-funded) adjunct to their ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ initiatives. The board includes: Princess Anne, Lords Brittan, Carr, Hunt and Merlyn-Rees, Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy (Kingfisher plc), Michael Hastings ( BBC), Nathaniel Sloane (Accenture), Matt Baggott (Deputy Chief Constable, West Midlands Police), Liz Wicksteed (Home Office) and Sir Stanley Kalms (Treasurer of the Conservative Party).(7) Demos brought […]
[…] Campbell and his people in the CIC preparing the second ‘intelligence-based dossier’ which was endorsed by Colin Powell at the UN. On 5 February 2003 Andrew Gilligan, BBC Defence Correspondent, and formerly at the Sunday Telegraph, announced that he had received a leaked document from Defence Intelligence staff – i.e. the military – which […]
[…] B. S. A. Tahir, Griffin was named as a middleman for a project to create a machine shop in Libya. Griffin subsequently won libel cases against the BBC (26) and The Guardian27 for alleging that he had been knowingly involved in assisting the Libyan regime in developing its nuclear programme. He claimed complete ignorance […]
[…] Washington years have eased them up the career tree back in London. Michael White, still busy dissing any possibility of political conspiracy to his Guardian readers and BBC listeners despite being a Washington hack during President Reagan’s IranContra years, is probably the worst of them in this regard. But his old Guardian colleague, Jim […]
