[…] 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 […]
[…] acquaintance of Hakim’s.(13) One of Tabatabai’s relatives helped set up the contact during a trip to the United States. On July 21 1986 North wrote to his boss Admiral Poindexter: ‘George Cave will proceed to Frankfurth to meet w/Tabatabai, the cousin of the man I met w/here. T is allegedly well connected to Rafsanjani […]
[…] a volume of the House Select Committee on Assassinations but I don’t have the reference at hand. If someone can supply it I would be grateful). Inside BOSS, South Africa’s Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) “BOSS assigned me to monitor the activities of Richard Gibson (exposed in 1969 as a CIA agent), […]
[…] 51, March 1981, there was this snippet: ‘Why all the fuss about the Panorama programme on British Intelligence? Eventually there was just one cut — Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, former freelance journalist, in a pre-title sequence: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football […]
[…] are based on a large study commissioned by UNESCO. This latter fact may give some hint of UNESCO’s current unpopularity with the UK and US governments. ‘ BOSS in Britain’ James Barber, African Affairs, July 1983 A valuable compilation of the various reports and incidents involving BOSS (South Africa’s Bureau of State Research) going […]
By Peter Dale Scott (18,734 words) 10/29/05 See also A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11 (I wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in the preparation of this essay from N, a Russian who for the time being prefers to remain anonymous.) Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any … Read more
[…] in the CFR; everybody is. Still, some very useful primary data here beneath the rhetoric and theories. There is a Trilateral site at http://trilateral.org/annmtgs/trialog/triglist.htm Meet the new boss… same as the old boss One of Lobster’s regular contributors of recent years had been having terrible trouble, first with his answering machine and then with […]
Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, £18.99, h/b According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and … Read more
[…] from The Washington Post from pursuing a ‘Seven Days in May scenario’ that would have implicated the CIA in a Watergate conspiracy. In a memo to his boss, written July 10, 1972, Lukoskie wrote that ‘Bennett has established a “back door entry” to the Edward Bennett Williams law firm which is representing the Democratic […]
[…] Chequers for a working meeting with Mrs Thatcher, after her election. But perhaps the key political figure was the late Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian Premier and Langemann’s boss. Strauss was a close friend of Alexandre de Marenches and was a frequent visitor to the SDECE’s headquarters during Marenches’ time. The Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, the political trust […]
