[…] and their children – all 74 of them – were still glowing as the nation’s major news institutions rousingly endorsed the decision of Janet Reno and her boss, Bill Clinton, to give the FBI (and, as it turned out, the Delta Force) the go-ahead for an operation that ensured massacre. Newsweek, we particularly remember, […]
The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95 In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of … Read more
[…] official who served as director general of the National Economic Development Council (Neddy) from 1973 to 1977. This is a diary of those years. As befitted a boss of this quintessentially consensus-minded institution, McIntosh was a firm believer in getting the unions (and everyone else) round a piece of furniture that, during the crisis […]
[…] deal from Leigh – all acknowledged – but Leigh’s account was much more narrowly focused than ours. In Leigh, for example, there is only one reference to BOSS; Colin Wallace received only 7 (misleading) lines; there was nothing on the Ulster Workers’ Council strike; one page on Rhodesia, a few lines on Cecil King, […]
[…] organisation, The Hakluyt Foundation, which channels intelligence from the agency to big companies and gathers information from its own contacts. It is run by Tomlinson’s old MI6 boss, Christopher James, who retired from the agency in 1994. Other directors include a former Royal Dutch Shell managing director and a one-time Home Office permanent secretary.’ […]
[…] Hounam cites John McNaughton, Special Council at the DoD and ‘the Pentagon’s principal civilian war planner’ () as a likely Cyanide instigator. He was also Daniel Ellsberg’s boss on compiling the Pentagon Papers, and had recently withdrawn classified access to the office safe after suspecting Ellsberg’s unauthorised probings.( ) We can only speculate about […]
Introduction There are a couple of interesting chapters in Chapman Pincher’s recent The Truth About Dirty Tricks, (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991), especially the one about Harold Wilson’s ‘spymaster’, the late George Wigg; but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher’s primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic … Read more
[…] data Gould and Mattinson used to persuade Labour leaders and much of the media to accept the creation of New Labour? The spoils of war Mattinson’s overall boss at Chime Communications, Lord Bell, was one of the beneficiaries of taxpayers’ largesse through contracts issued by the Blair government for post-invasion work in Iraq. Bell’s […]
[…] topics that really should have been included. I would probably include a wider selection of secret and security services and their misdeeds, including South Africa’s apartheid era BOSS and the French sinkers of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior; an investigation into the murky world of mineral mining in Central Africa is long overdue; Charles Higham’s Trading […]
[…] central figures in the drama with lives already draped in concealment, to whom we might properly attribute another layer of deception. Gay gangster, gay businessman, gay FBI boss, gay anti- Castro activist and, perhaps, emerging gay patsy. As Dean Andrews might have said, ‘How d’you like them apples?’ Mr Liebeler. I am advised by […]
