[PDF file]: […] Research Department (IRD); IRD’s media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, usually labour 6 See for an account by former Special Branch officers of recruiting informants among the NUM and for an account of Special Branch’s […]
[PDF file]: […] with Lobster 11 (1986). 27 8 IRD. After the election of Allende, British Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home told IRD specialist A. S. Dyer (based at the British Embassy in Santiago) to cooperate with FWF there, indicating concern at the top of the British government about the turn events had taken in Chile. FWF was […]
[…] of ‘directed energy’ is also endorsed by a group of scientists who concluded that microwaves was the most plausible explanation The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power […]
[PDF file]: […] material posted to his home and a message left on his home answering machine insinuating an affair which was traced back to an employee of the Canadian Embassy. 23 No evidence has been offered to substantiate rumours that Kerr was a former Special Branch officer, though little is known about his past. 24 Interview […]
[PDF file]: […] a family with a tradition of interest in Cold War intelligence work, propaganda and covert action. His father Joseph Godson was Labour attaché at the United States embassy in London in the 1950s and used his influence to promote the interest of the pro-US Avraham Burg, The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from […]
[PDF file]: […] any financial institution, the management board of VTB includes a range of personalities but in prominent positions are Andrei Kostin, formerly in ‘diplomatic service’ at the USSR embassy in London 1985-1990, during which time he presumably knew Alexander Lebedev the current proprietor of The Evening Standard and The Independent, Vasily Titor, who ‘worked in […]
[…] of Dominic Sandbrook’s 2019 account of the early years of Mrs Thatcher, Who Dares Wins. Yes, the title is meant to evoke the SAS and the Iranian Embassy siege but it also represents Sandbrook’s view that Mrs T had come to rescue Blighty from decline.1 And after 40 years of Thatcherite policies of low […]
[PDF file]: PERFIDIOUS ALBION Britain and the Spanish Civil War Paul Preston London: The Clapton Press, 2024, £14.99, p/b. Simon Matthews This is the latest book from the Clapton Press, a small imprint specialising in Spain and Latin America. They have brought back into the public domain many important works, long out of print, particularly valuable eye-witness […]
[PDF file]: […] subsidies from the United Arab Republic (UAR), including finance for an off-shore pirate radio station to broadcast his racism and anti-Semitism. The military attaché at the UAR embassy was very sympathetic, but nothing came of it. (p. 281) Jordan was obsessed with Rudolf Hess, urging that he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He […]
[PDF file]: […] documentary for Channel 4 which seemed to show that the official version of the death of PC Yvonne Fletcher – murdered by a shot from the Libyan embassy – was false; that she was shot by a gunman in another building as part of the demonisation of Libya by American intelligence. That documentary is […]
