[…] parapsychologist Edward Naumov, mentioned above, who was the key Soviet contact for the authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, was sentenced to two years hard labour for a semi-related petty offence and remanded to a psychiatric ‘treatment facility’.(9) The change in the official line seems to have been an attempt not only […]
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
[…] 20, proposed by Griffin and seconded by Anderson). Given there was little practical outcome concerning the policy of a ‘Return to the Land’, save perhaps for free labour being carried out by NF members to renovate various properties owned by Nick Griffin over the years, it hardly needs consideration here. It is noteworthy that […]
[…] his intelligence connections were maintained because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of ‘stopping’ Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. (New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike her predecessors, Mrs Thatcher had maintained an interest in intelligence matters while in opposition. Through journalist Chapman […]
[…] class finds itself in, not least when it comes to religion and the threat of a US-led invasion. Despite Islam being the ideological underpinning of the repressive labour (and other laws), most Iranians remain Muslims and would want any political changes to respect that. This accounts for the comparative lack of success of more […]
[…] compile a detailed account of the Commonwealth Bilderberg’s origins in which he also suggests that the original Bilderberg had assumed a significant degree of importance to senior Labour Party figures. Philip Murphy, ‘By invitation only: Lord Mountbatten, Prince Philip, and the attempt to create a Commonwealth “Bilderberg Group”, 1964-66’. The Journal of Imperial and […]
[…] class and to eradicate the reforms won by decades of peaceful struggle’. (p.101) This, I would remind him, could equally well characterise both Thatcherism and the New Labour project. ‘Reaction’ in Renton’s shaky hands is merely shorthand for people whose views he and the SWP leadership (before whom he genuflects) don’t like. In case […]
[…] damning intelligence against Iraq being selectively chosen, while intelligence assessments, which might have worked against the build-up to war, were sidelined. Intelligence work had become politicised under Labour, and spies were taking orders from politicians. They provided worst-case scenarios which were use by politicians to make factual claims.'(3) There were no names and no […]
[…] and political trends in Australia and South East Asia. He outlined to them the strategy to bring Robert Hawke to power.. He forecast that Hawke would be Labour Leader by late 1982 and Prime Minister by 1983. Hawke would also be in power for ten years and not for one term. (Hawke PM John […]
[…] conviction, guilty or otherwise; net snooping at work; Echelon and its cousins; the origins of the surveillance society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; the growth of federal law enforcement agencies and their intelligence gathering; the growth of private, political intelligence gathering from […]
