[…] He didn’t manage to match Sikorski’s rise to the top job, but his influence remains considerable (Lobsters passim) through his work on behalf of Labour Friends of Israel and friendship with newly appointed Independent editor Roger Alton. McShane’s partner is Joan Smith, a columnist on Tribune and The Independent on Sunday. Friends of ‘the […]
[…] David C. Martin’s 1980 Wilderness of Mirrors. This may not have been the real reason for his ouster. Angleton was also the liaison between the CIA and Israel and during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Nixon and Kissinger tried to ‘tilt’ American foreign policy away from its unconditional support for Israel. To do so in […]
[…] reputation. The man tasked with sorting out the financial mess now that Lord Levy has followed Tony Blair into the sunset is his old Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) colleague Jon Mendelsohn. Announcing the appointment of the business lobbyist in August, Labour said Mendelsohn’s role would be to ‘improve overall organisational efficiency and to […]
[…] simmering pot of racial tension in the inner cities.'(19) He accused opponents of wanting to create a ‘Kosher NF…. weaken our opposition to the bandit state of Israel’, and to turn the ‘NF into a reactionary anti-immigration pressure group’.(20) This missive from Griffin produced a rival Organisers’ Bulletin under the auspices of Wingfield, Brons, […]
[…] for several hours. She was a political exile with refugee status from the Home Office. An architect, she had stumbled across some big scam being run in Israel and had been forced to leave. The story was long and complicated. I’ve now forgotten most of it. She had piles of documents. She claimed that […]
[…] attempted to found a small community church near Pyongyang, without much success. He then joined a mystical sect in the southern Korean province of Kyong Ki-do called Israel Suo-won, whose tenets foreshadowed both his later theological principles, particularly in their emphasis upon the imminent appearance of a Korean messiah, and his ritual practice of […]
[…] The Independent Institute, exposed as a business lobby in the New York Times when leaked documents showed that Microsoft secretly funded their research.(22) A member of The Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress (ICSEP) run by Daniel Doran (former Israeli intelligence and special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv). The US […]
[…] is rarely far away (see Lobster 47). To complete the picture, we should also mention that MacShane is on the policy council of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in […]
[…] (and other West German intelligence agencies) is provided by Walde pp.79-105. The best sketch of Mossad’s structure and functioning is probably the CIA’s own leaked 1979 analysis, Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services in Counterspy (May-June 1982) pp.34-54. Most of the other works on the Israeli intelligence services are ‘hagiographic’. The NATO secret service […]
[…] Germany, Great Britain and the United States. In his 1975 autobiography (published in Holland) Einthoven states that he was lobbying for support in France, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Israel and even Indonesia. Personal links were developed with the Bilderberg group. In the The Black-Pincered Crab by E. Verhoeven and F. Uytterhagen (Holland 1982) the authors […]
