[…] Iraq; Westminster’s recently established All Party Rendition Group. The latter has agreed with human rights groups to use American laws ‘to get Washington to reveal how many CIA flights carrying detainees landed in Britain. They are also planning to table an amendment to the civil aviation bill going through parliament, or the police bill […]
[…] Rhodesia and reported ‘he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et al, in whom I was never very interested. It […]
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 1 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
[…] victim of an assassination attempt as a result of his or her name having been published. Proponents of the bill cite the cases of Welch and Kinsman, CIA officers who were attacked allegedly as a result of their identities being printed in American magazines; the evidence to support this allegation is, in our view, […]
The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London on 1 May was preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone.(1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to […]
[…] as an agent – hardly positions of influence to rival that of his previous employment as the head of SIS’s anti-Soviet desk and liaison officer with the CIA in Washington. It can be argued, however, that the political and social damage inflicted on the then British ruling elite by the various defections, and the […]
[…] works. I’ll tell you the real story of how Jack Kennedy got killed someday. It was supposed to be a miss! What a set of accidents! The CIA didn’t know anus from appetite that day. ” (p123) A Lobster reader writes that he repeatedly finds that photographs taken of military installations come back from […]
[…] Civil Service regulations.) Production Services, having comprehensive printing facilities, provided forgeries of various sorts – driving licenses (Holroyd’s Eire driving license in a false name, for example), CIA identity cards, posters, press ID cards, bank statements and so on. Information Policy (Inf Pol) went into the psyops arena with smear campaigns against political figures […]
[…] The previous British referendum on ‘Europe’ was scarcely a balanced affair. Most of the press promoted the ‘Yes’ campaign, as did much of the political establishment, the CIA, the BBC and the Information Research Department. This time the forces are less uneven and McGiffen’s material could help lay the basis for a more serious […]
[…] ‘the StB (Czech) residency in London ran three Labour MPs.’ They named one of the three, Will Owen MP, citing as sources Frolik’s memoir, ghost-written while under CIA control, and Chapman Pincher! (This bit must be down to Andrew.) They did not mention that Owen was conning the Czechs, getting paid a lot of […]
