Giles Scott-Smith London: Routledge/PSA 2002, £55 This is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA-funded operation that ran for two decades after World War II of which Encounter magazine was the best-known British component. Giles Scott-Smith has added to the historical record well illuminated by Christopher […]
[…] its post-1967 conquered territory. An RFK presidency increasingly possible as the ’68 bandwagon rolled on would be bad news for greater Israel enthusiasts, with Kennedy’s liberal advisers putting on pressure for serious negotiation. And potential for leverage was certainly present in Operation Cyanide, which was, to date, the most sensitive secret in […]
Terror Within: Terrorism and the Dream of a British RepublicClive Bloom Stroud, Glos.: Sutton, 2007, h/bk, 297 pages, h/b, £20.00 This sets out to provide a narrative describing the range of ‘attempts’ to set up a republic in Britain from the time of the French revolution until the present day. (Although the bulk of … Read more
[…] decided to shut him up by ruining his reputation. Evidence? Hume Boggis-Rolfe was at school (Westminster) and university (Trinity) with Philby, and held ‘extreme’ left opinions (mildly liberal, in common parlance, at least for the Lord Chancellor’s Department). Lever, a main player in the scheme, was a friend of Aarvold, a member of the […]
[…] control of economic policy in New Zealand and imposed on it a bizarre amalgam of the IMF restructuring programme traditionally imposed on the Third World, traditional neo- liberal notions of free markets, and Mrs Thatcher’s lasting memorial, selling off public assets are bargain prices. The oddity of what they did can’t be exaggerated. IMF […]
It now looks pretty certain to me that Kennedy’s assassination was the work of a local Texas conspiracy on behalf of, and with the knowledge of, the then Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Most of the extant evidence for this can be seen on the web site ‘The Men on the Sixth Floor'(1) which advertises the … Read more
[…] resigned from CIA, avoiding Angleton’s mole hunt, and went back to Vietnam. At this point political considerations at the highest level came into play. Colby, a self-described liberal, had a fortuitous personal connection with Richard Nixon. (Colby’s son was the roommate of Tricia Nixon’s fiancé, Edward Cox, who in 1970 was Jonathan Colby’s best […]
Tony Blair’s rhetoric is heavily if unconsciously littered with fascist buzz words: NATION, NEW, RENEWAL and so on. But there is a greater similarity than single words: Blair frequently expresses ideas which have a remarkable similarity to those of Oswald Mosley. To demonstrate this, I have compiled a series of quotes from Blair and Mosley. … Read more
[…] Benn in his basement office that the Left (with which I retained some sympathy) could better win its battles on defence and foreign policy by associating with liberal middle class anxieties in this area, only to be patronised as only he can patronise. In the event, I was proved right. Social and political changes […]
[…] lay out their policy documents, the task of this ‘Peter Wright’ may have been accomplished and the expulsion was simply the authorities maintaining his cover as a liberal sympathiser. It does not seem likely that this is a hitherto suppressed part of Wright’s career working for HMG, but damn, the photographs look close. I, […]
