[…] fides of their southern Irish counterparts, considering many to be still IRA men at heart, waiting for the opportunity to restart the war; or there was a liberal hope that limited self-government was a step towards some form of political rapprochement and reunion, albeit on different terms than before. Few were willing to accept […]
Richard J. Aldrich London: John Murray, 2001, £25 Another huge book, 645 pages of text and 70 pages of index, bibliographies and notes. How do you review something this size? I simply don’t know. Short of doing a London Review of Books-sized job and working through it chapter by chapter, all I can really … Read more
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest … Read more
[…] piece for the Guardian to launch the publication of a report by the Foreign Office’s historian on the notorious Zinoviev letter.(15) Cook had been asked by the Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker – the current Parliament’s leading member of ‘the awkward squad’ – to open the MI6 files relating to the Zinoviev letter. Cook […]
[…] DELGATS OXFORD UNI. PRESS ROBERTSON, DOUGLAS GCHQ 1975 SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER LITTLE SAI WAN GCHQ ROSE, (EDWARD) MICHAEL CMG (1955) B. 18/10/13 ST. JOHNS COLL. CAMB. NATIONAL LIBERAL MI6 (C) 1937 DIPLOMATIC SERVICE 40 OSLO 44 ALGIERS 45-48 COPENHAGEN 48-52 FO 52-55 DEPUTY TO GOC BRITISH SECTOR BERLIN (BERLIN STATION) 55-60 COUNSELLOR FO 58-59 […]
[…] evidence has not been conclusively found. It was hardly to be expected that it would be. Industrial espionage aided by government is not meant to exist in liberal democracies; or, more to the point, amongst friends. According to Bamford, the industrial information that is picked up by the National Security Agency (NSA) is only […]
[…] of his insight shortly after election day. Who does Mr Morris think is to blame for the discrepancies in exit polling? Why, the usual monolithic conspiracy of liberal, leftie, terrorist-loving, media pantywaists, of course. Mr Morris’s extravagant claims are worth quoting at some length. ‘Exit polls,’ he (rightly) remarked, ‘are almost never wrong. They […]
[…] of one of the major operating divisions of the Department of Plans – a cover for covert operations – part of that being the secret funding of liberal foundations and student organisations. When these activities were revealed (via Ramparts magazine) in the 1960s, Meyer was kicked upstairs to become head of the CIA London […]
Gordon Winter In Lobster 18, dated October 1989, under the headline: ‘Inside BOSS and After‘, you wrote the following: ‘Gordon Winter is an Englishman who was recruited by BOSS. His 1981 book Inside BOSS, was the first (and only) inside account of South Africa’s intelligence agency. We still think this is one of the most […]
Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits have … Read more
