[…] 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 […]
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] part of the Police Service. My gut feeling is that there exists almost a taboo against pressing home the need for continued Special Branch scrutiny or accountability. BOSS and our own spook services dropped a real clanger that truly rebounded at least on the Criminal Injustice System when Peter Hain was fingered for a […]
The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see […]
