Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more
[…] 1 per cent of the GDP. The special circumstances of the oil crisis in 1973 led to a –4 per cent figure in 1974, but the ‘old Labour’ Wilson and Callaghan governments trans-formed this into a 0.5 per cent surplus by 1978. Thereafter the position became far more volatile, and by the end of […]
[…] passed to PIRA and own bank account David O’Connell/Marie Maguire affair Jeremy Thorpe: misuse of party funds Funds from East Germany to finance Wilson’s campaign McGrath/Paisley/McKeague Are Labour deliberately damaging the economy to assist USSR plot against West? Psychoanalysis: Wilson, Benn, O’Connell, Paisley Treasury study shows economy on verge of collapse Jo Richardson, Joan […]
[…] Crozier. Little wonder that she once told an interviewer that she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky […]
[…] computer-based information handling, only with the computer’s assistance can this kind of intensive information gathering be usefully handled. On Humberside, after a flurry of anxiety within the Labour Party, the Humberside Police Committee awoke briefly from its slumbers, and asked the Chief Constable to produce the Operational Requirements of the system. He refused, instead […]
[…] usual the UK was just part of the US PR operation, the ‘we are not alone’ factor. As has been frequently pointed out in these pages, New Labour was coopted by the US long before it took office. As for the events leading up to war, there isn’t much left to say. In the […]
[…] his links to the CIA and the Government didn’t appear to stop his taking on the title ex– CIA. But the biscuit is taken by the US Labour Party who seem to have survived the last decade peddling absolute garbage about Permindex – the conspiracy not only including the Kennedy assassination, but also the […]
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25 Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
