[…] estimated 2,000 personnel. Marion made himself still more unpopular by closing down the rich exchange between the DGSE and the South African Bureau of State Research ( BOSS). In an internal campaign of resistance to the then new Socialist administration, leaks to the press (almost a DGSE tradition) multiplied, particularly from a right-wing faction […]
[PDF file]: […] their brother George. FBI reports described him as a ‘big-time gambler’ and bookmaker from New York. He allegedly fronted for Michael ‘Trigger Mike’ Coppola, the powerful under boss one of New York City’s five Mafia clans, the Genovese family. In the late 1950s, George looked after Coppola’s interests in the Plaza hotel and casino […]
[PDF file]: […] in the name of fighting Communism. Key players included CIA directors Allen Dulles and Richard Helms; Mafia killers Sam Giancana, Santos Trafficante and John Roselli;* Teamsters Union boss and Mafia ally Jimmy Hoffa; billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes; reporters Drew Pearson, Jack Anderson and Hank Greenspun; and super-lawyers Edward Bennett Williams and Edward P. Morgan. […]
[PDF file]: […] as little more than a right-wing loony, McWhirter was rather more than that. The single most interesting fragment we have on McWhirter is the claim by ex- BOSS (Bureau of State Security – South Africa’s secret intelligence service) agent Gordon Winter that he was told, via a British Special Branch source, that McWhirter and […]
[…] events of 1974-76, the so-called ‘Wilson plots’? * The so-called private armies episode of 1974 and 1975 gets only a paragraph on George Young’s Unison. * The BOSS operations against Peter Hain and Jeremy Thorpe are dismissed, as is Gordon Winter. Andrew describes him, on somebody else’s say-so, as unreliable, and quotes an MI5 […]
[PDF file]: […] events of 1974-76, the so-called ‘Wilson plots’? * The so-called private armies episode of 1974 and 1975 gets only a paragraph on George Young’s Unison. * The BOSS operations against Peter Hain and Jeremy Thorpe are dismissed, as is Gordon Winter. Andrew describes him, on somebody else’s say-so, as unreliable, and quotes an MI5 […]
[PDF file]: […] other words. Archegos has gone bust, owing various banks $10 billion. So far, so rather routine. The author of a piece in the Telegraph described what Archegos’ boss Bill Hwang had been doing – his ‘trading strategy’. ‘Hwang was mostly trading through total return swaps. As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They […]
[PDF file]: […] about his praetorian guards and spear carriers, the former Director of Public Prosecutions could then move on the main event – Duncan’s description of his former FCO boss, the self-styled World King himself. In 2016 Duncan attends Chatham House for the presentation of a Royal Institute of International Affairs prize to US Secretary of […]
[PDF file]: […] $100,000 . . . Bebe Rebozo . . . maintained a private fund for Nixon to use as he wished.’ 38 Haldeman’s assistant Lawrence Higby testified his boss had spoken of a $400,000 secret fund controlled by Rebozo. On April 17, 1973, Nixon urged Memorandum from FBI Director Hoover to Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust […]
[…] other words. Archegos has gone bust, owing various banks $10 billion. So far, so rather routine. The author of a piece in the Telegraph described what Archegos’ boss Bill Hwang had been doing – his ‘trading strategy’. ‘Hwang was mostly trading through total return swaps. As derivatives go, these are pretty plain vanilla. They […]
