[…] the run-up the attack on Iraq, the aptly named Con Coughlin is at it again. In The Sunday Telegraph of 20 March he ran a piece, ‘ Iran plans secret “nuclear university” to train scientists’, which was attributed to ‘reports received by Western intelligence’. Crazy wavies, right? Meanwhile, out there in the wonderful world […]
Covert Action CAIB trundles on. I haven’t always agreed with CAIB’s line. With others on the U.S. left, it used to seem reluctant to deal with the real nature of the Soviet Union. Having got to he point where America has become Amerika, many American radicals have been unable to acknowledge that the other Superpower […]
[…] he was disciplined, told he was suffering from paranoia, and obliged to leave the police force.’ The background to the case is described in ‘How MI6 helped Iran buy arms’, by Mark Watts, in Sunday Business 9 May 1999. A friend of Friends? ‘Former Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar has admitted he was the minister […]
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case James DiEugenio Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1992 Scott Newton The JFK industry continues to flourish. One of its most recent as well as more interesting products is DiEugenio’s study of the assassination and the Garrison Commission. The book has its flaws and recycles a good deal […]
Lord Stevenson Media coverage of four senior bankers arraigned before the Treasury Select Committee in February centred on whether the representatives of the Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS would utter the word ‘sorry’ about behaviour that has landed the British taxpayer in the soup. In what appeared to be a well-rehearsed effort, all duly […]
[…] the title refers to the years Philby spent in Beirut, parked there by SIS. Thus we get short chapters on the overthrow of the Mossadeq government in Iran (which occurred before Philby arrived in Beirut); the curious ‘invasion’ of Lebanon by the US in 1958, in which, according to Riley, Philby played no role; […]
One of the aims of this column is to open up new lines of enquiry for parapolitical specialists. It might seem very odd to start with the name of Reinhard Gehlen, long-since dead founder of the BND, the German Security Service. Reinhard Gehlen, to over-simplify a very complex tale, bought his way into the Western […]
Feedback Mark Taha (see Lobster 21, p. 25) wrote. ‘As someone who never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. On page […]
David Stafford, John Murray, London, 1997, £25 Any book dealing with Winston Churchill must situate itself within one of two rival camps. On the one hand, there are the Churchillians, who regard him as one of the great men of the twentieth century, who dominates modern times and deserves personal credit for having saved Britain […]
[…] it could follow that the British government is working towards the restoration of the Baghdad Pact: i.e. it is seeking to link Iraq’s fate to that of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, all of which are predominantly Muslim but not Arab. If this is the case, it could do well to remember that the Tigris […]
