[…] not clear how Burns was able to make such a seemingly-superhuman observation.50 The nuclear sabotage scare-story had been created by the SBU in August 2015, perhaps with CIA connivance, via documents leaked simultaneously to friendly media outlets in the US and the UK – respectively, Newsweek 51 and 48 LazerPig 18 June 2023. See […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in attempts to sink a boatload of buses in the Thames in 1964. It’s an eclectic brew which reflects its editor’s passions and interests, so […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to […]
[PDF file]: […] from the American line since then. So great is the British state’s subservience to the 2 3 This is not a new problem. Sam Adams was a CIA analyst who saw that the Agency and the US military were consistently underreporting the strength of the opposition in Vietnam and blew the whistle on it, […]
[PDF file]: […] that the man charged by Reagan in 1985 with drawing up concrete plans against Libya – code-named ‘Flower/Rose’ – was Robert Gates. He went on to become CIA director under George Bush Sr and stayed on as Defence Secretary when Barack Obama succeeded George Bush Jnr. With Libya having this powerful opponent in the […]
[PDF file]: […] asked by President Bush on 12 September 2001). The propensity of senior US figures to hold such views has been remarked on by Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official, who is quoted on page 58 about the intellectual proclivities of Wolfowitz, Bush and others: Europe-Asia-Africa a determining factor? If so, how should the rest […]
[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
[PDF file]: Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions: Allan Flanders and British industrial relations reform John Kelly, New York/Abingdon: Routledge: 2010, £70 (h/b) Lawrence Black By the 1960s Allan Flanders was amongst the foremost industrial relations experts in Britain. A key figure in the ‘Oxford School’, he sat on the government Commission on Industrial Relations, provided key […]
[PDF file]: […] Whitlam as PM in 1975. For Burke see see or For Pettus see . File TSCH/3/S17401D/63 lists Kennedy’s personal security detail among whom are John Roberts ( CIA, London Embassy) and John Sullivan (US Secret Service). 7 Rather like President Biden today, whose ancestors left for the US at the same time as Kennedy’s. […]
[PDF file]: […] with Ehrlichman and it is unclear why it was filed alongside Johnson compiled a dossier on what he knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now […]
