[…] and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. The book was not reprinted after its first edition […]
Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the […]
[…] (94), the Spanish Direccion General de Seguridad (DGS), the Greek Kentrike Yperesia Plirophorion (KYP or Central Intelligence Service), and the South African Bureau of State Security ( BOSS) (95): a unit that specialized in recruiting and training mercenaries in the arcane arts of ‘unconventional’ warfare; a strategic centre for coordinating ‘subversion and intoxication operations’ […]
[…] Paul Halloran arrangements for meeting Owen Oyston in London in July. He also received a telephone call from detective Chris More who had been shadowing model agency boss Peter Martin and reported that Martin was ‘said to be involved forming companies for Oyston.’ 23 June Murrin and Hounam of The Sunday Times met Melanie […]
[…] did until the firm went bankrupt, under scandalous circumstances, in 1967. Though this occurred more than ten years before Jonestown, Invesco’s former assistant manager – Jim Jones’s boss – was still in Rio at the time of the massacre. An American who had come to Brazil in the late 1940s, and stayed, he was […]
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more
[…] who you want to meet and Derek and I will make the call for you.’ Newspaper reports told us that immediately after the story broke, Draper’s former boss, Mandelson, saw his current boss, Sir Ian Wrigglesworth, (who happens to be Mandelson’s next-door neighbour in West London) and within a day Draper had lost his […]
[…] in the August 1994 edition of their magazine, Socialist Standard, on page 126, we find this paragraph. ‘Feeling paranoid? Not as much as they are. According to BOSS agent, Robin Ramsay (In an interview cut from a 1981 Panorama programme, but printed verbatim elsewhere), British intelligence has a saying that if there is a […]
[…] current favourite speculative theory which accommodates the U.S. state involves the so-called apertura a sinistra or opening to the left in Italy. Nearly ten years ago former BOSS agent Gordon Winter replied to a letter from Steve Dorril about BOSS’s view of the assassination with the answer that BOSS files had attributed it to […]
[…] but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw […]
