[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] I am aware of. The most pressing was that had he sent UK troops to Vietnam there would have been massive problems with the left-wing of the Labour Party in and outside parliament. And in those days this mattered. The second reason was suggested by the former SIS officer Anthony Cavendish, who told me […]
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
[…] 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” […]
[…] Outraged, the BBC’s Newsnight organised a studio debate. It did not explain that the person supporting the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee was a leading Labour spin-doctor, Matthew Freud, using the pseudonym Oliver Kamm.On a different subject, presenter Jeremy Paxman referred to ‘surviving a sustained barrage of astonishingly threatening lawyers’ letters and […]
[…] MPs David Owen, Stan Orme, Tony Benn, Paul Rose and Merlyn Rees; the one purporting to be Dennis Healey’s opinion of the Common Market; or the purported Labour Party election pamphlet. All of these were produced to a standard far beyond the technical or professional abilities of the Army Information Services in Northern Ireland. […]
