[PDF file]: […] half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very good, very well informed and a pleasure to read (and reread). I would […]
[PDF file]: […] actions, he said, were also on behalf of the Z Society, a college group at the University of Virginia that Pyongyang alleges is a front for the CIA.’ 3 There appear to be at least sixteen fraternities/sororities at the University of Virginia, and some of them do have odd histories.4 It should be noted […]
[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in the ‘Soviet threat’ triggered the formation of the anti-subversion lobby which gathered round Brian Crozier in the early 1970s – CIA, MI6 and IRD personnel who were not persuaded of the decline of the ‘Soviet threat’. (This was part of the wider debate about the reality of […]
[PDF file]: […] characters and events with no idea of which is which. For instance: Liggett’s youthful participation in David Ferrie’s Civil Air Patrol outfit and his recruitment by the CIA therefrom. This is plainly of key importance to understanding Liggett’s life but I have no idea whether it’s real or pretend. Mr Fleming’s characters are all […]
[PDF file]: […] Saudis and the Americans. The British had tried to derail the Sunday Times investigation and covered everything up, to avoid yet another Cambridge spy scandal. And the CIA still pretended it knew nothing about it.4 Stanley Bonnett, born in London a few months after Holden, had volunteered for the Royal Navy at the age […]
[PDF file]: […] General Sir John Kerr, who sacked him in November 1975. In true Seventies fashion, some furious Whitlam supporters claimed that Kerr had acted on orders from the CIA.’ Wheen does not offer an opinion on whether the ‘furious Whitlam supporters ‘ were right or wrong (I don’t think he cares); he’s interested in the […]
[PDF file]: […] (it’s not actually bulky, but a slim volume) consists of an exploration of the claim of Lt. Col. Dan Marvin that he was ‘sounded out’ by a CIA officer as Pitzer’s assassin. Lt. Col. Marvin didn’t go through with it, but clearly even a failed attempt to recruit a murderer counts as evidence connected […]
[…] rest of these stories and lots of its funding may simply have been stolen. En route the authors wander into all manner of interesting byways, including the CIA trials in the early 1950s and the Frank Olsen case; and David Kelly and other dead microbiologists. (Just google ‘dead microbiologists’ to get a flavour.) This […]
[PDF file]: […] a Senior Fellowship at the University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Other Senior Fellows at the Institute include General Graeme Lamb, the US General Stanley McChrystal and Robert James Woolsey, a former Director of the CIA. John Newsinger A new, revised and expanded edition of Newsinger’s British Counterinsurgency is out in October, published by Palgrave.
Contents Industrial relations and social democracy 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 B y the 1960s Allan Flanders was amongst the foremost industrial relations experts in Britain. A key figure in the ‘Oxford School’, he sat on the […]
