[…] a fourth is another UDA man, James Mcmichael, who came across from Northern Ireland earlier this year to tell the Ron Horn saga to Merlyn Rees, former Labour Home Secretary and Northern Irish Secretary. While it isn’t difficult to see why a British spook would want to discredit Wallace, the role of these UDA […]
[…] with most Africans, could shoot straight, or seemed able to learn.’) More interesting, he was a member of an SAS team dispatched to Thailand by Harold Wilson’s Labour government to train Thai special forces. This, it was hoped by the regiment, was the beginning of a more substantial commitment that would end with British […]
[…] system. The rights groups say that the RIP act fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a right established by the HRA and ECHR. The Labour peer, Lord Ahmed, also complained that transcripts of his phone conversations were given to ministers. Unusually, in this case the government said that Lord Ahmed was […]
[…] all that a few, a very few malcontents in MI5, a lot of them right wing, malicious…..were spreading damaging and malicious stories about some members of that Labour Government’. This may very well not be the whole story. How many were ‘a few, a very few’, especially when ‘a lot’ of these had extreme […]
[…] developed in the fifties and sixties, how IRD came to circulate (and the rest of Whitehall let it circulate) material about the ‘Soviet threat’ within the British labour movement; and how this nonsense came to be inserted into the conflict in Northern Ireland (‘Britain’s Cuba’ as IRD christened it ). For that – what […]
The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland … Read more
[…] means anything that damages ‘reputation’: for example, if there is a suggestion that a product is faulty, or if a subsidiary is found to have supported child labour or spoiled the environment. This damages overall business activity and can undermine licence to operate. Resulting action, sometimes including regulatory and legislative action, can cost millions. […]
[…] Midland Bank; and Sir Ian Gilmour. Current FARI Chairman is Sir Frederick Bennet, Director of CAU and Kleinwort Benson and a member of the Bilderberg group. See Labour Research June 1983 – The South African Connection, for Tory links to SA. Also mentioned are the familiar names of G. Stewart Smith, Ian Greig and […]
[…] made Shadow Chancellor by the late John Smith, he did not believe it but thought he had to go along with the so-called ‘Washington consensus’ to get Labour into office; but for at least a decade he appears to me to have been a true believer. And you can see the appeal of this […]
[…] Committee, PO Box 18541, Christchurch, New Zealand, which publishes and distributes material on US/CIA operations in the region. As multi-national capital shifts east in search of cheap labour and new markets, the focus of CIA et al operations is shifting also. The Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand, is going to be the “hot” […]
