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[…] For example Iraqis, it claims, were to blame for the shameful murder of Shia cleric Abd al-Majid Khu’i whose memory has since been traduced because he accepted CIA money. The truth is that this vital, courageous man returned to Iraq at the time he did, solely at the request of the ‘allies’. He was […]

[…] British Youth Council.(53) The British Youth Council began as the British section of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), which was set up and financed by the CIA and SIS in the early 1950s to combat the Soviet Union’s youth fronts.(54) By Mandelson’s time in the mid-1970s – under a Labour government – the […]

[…] out of Vietnam and seems to have acquired a more rational appreciation of the situation there than the Americans did. After 1966 the counter-intelligence section of the CIA, headed by the loony James Angleton, came to believe that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent; and CIA counter-intelligence was the ultimate source of […]

What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]

[…] is none. However there is a hint. Before joining the NUM Windsor had been employed by the transnational union organisation, Public Services International (PSI). William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed Press, London, 1986) includes a chapter on the joint CIA/MI5 coup run in the sixties against Chedi Jagan, the Prime Minister of […]

Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]

In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patri cia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving […]

[…] their thinking and decisions in directions compatible with American goals.’ (p. 118 Emphasis added.) (He says nothing about the use of labour attache’ positions as cover for CIA.) And there are one or two interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the […]