A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood (New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) Honorable Men […]
Through The Looking Glass: British Foreign Policy In An Age Of Illusions Anthony Verrier (Cape, London 1983) This will probably turn out to be an important book, maybe even a little landmark in the (scanty) literature on British foreign policy since the war. So far it has been largely ignored by the literary/political establishment, receiving […]
[…] little man. Kent began keeping copies of ‘interesting’ US diplomatic cables for his own ‘private collection’. He eventually had over 1500. They included correspondence between Roosevelt and Churchill about assistance the US – which was then neutral – could give the UK. Kent had also requested a move to the US Embassy in Berlin […]
[…] Reports of the Committees (Washington: GPO, 1867). Quoted in Rae Allen Billington, Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (New York: MacMillan, 1974), p. 568; Ward Churchill, A Little Matter of Genocide (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997), p. 234. Smith’s objectivity was challenged at the time, but today even defenders of the […]
Reflections On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: reflections on the consequences of U. S. imperial arrogance and criminality Ward Churchill Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £11.90, p/back After a short and densely documented essay on the slaughter which has accompanied the formation and expansion of the United States of America, and some speculation on the […]
‘The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’ – Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off […]
The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]
[…] leanings, met with Lord Lloyd, a former High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sir Robert Vansittart, a career diplomat who actually had little influence with Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill. Churchill told Lord Halifax of the intentions of the German conspirators. Halifax relayed this to Chamberlain. Other anti-Hitler figures who came to the UK in 1938-1939 […]
[…] peace plans…… which he continued to push until July and August 1940.(11) It all came to nothing. Following the debacle in Norway (which Wolkoff aimed to create) Churchill became Prime Minister. Ramsay, Mosley and most of their followers were arrested and interned from May 23rd 1940 onward. How do we deal with this and […]
[…] of Zion. Spence shows convincingly that throughout 1919-21 Reilly was a very influential figure in British diplomatic circles, mixing quite easily with the likes of Balfour and Churchill, as ‘Special Consultant on Russian Affairs’ to the Secret Intelligence Service. The longevity and depth of his dealings with Churchill are of particular interest and seem […]
