[…] was first released onto California-based Yahoo website, which closed after a few days. The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘ Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an […]
[…] organised the bombing of the Miami Showband. She claims he told her that ‘security forces allowed weapons shipments to reach the paramilitaries, and terrorist training staff from Libya to pass unhindered.’ (Libyans in Northern Ireland?) She claims that towards the end of his life Nairac was afraid of being murdered by his own side […]
[…] about the David Shayler affair between August 2 and August 10 1998 produced rather little of significance other than the fact that Shayler, while head of MI5’s Libya desk, learned from his MI6 counterpart that 6 had bunged £100,000 at a Libyan exile group to try and kill Gadhafi. Trying to contain the situation, […]
[…] an expansion and updating of Blum’s The CIA: A Forgotten History, published by Zed Press in London in 1986. There are six new chapters, for example, on Libya, Panama, Bulgaria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. As the author notes, ‘The American government keeps people like me very busy.’ This is 383 pages of text, and […]
[…] between Fred Holroyd and the MOD who came with an offer of money if Fred gave up on Colin Wallace. Then he was a deniable intermediary between Libya and the Foreign Office. More recently he offered Fred Holroyd £100,000 to break the British mercenary Peter Bleach out of an Indian jail. Taylor was taped […]
[…] ‘The Maltese Double-Cross’ about the Lockerbie bombing incident, thereby going up against the combined forces of the US and UK states bent on pinning the deed on Libya. Dying of a heart attack at 56 is not that unusual but in Francovich’s case his death must go into the ‘convenient deaths’ category. Arthur Gavshon […]
[…] sensitive area just to stir up a row.’ (p. 57) His own involvement with Watchguard International was with David Stirling’s celebrated conspiracy to overthrow Muammar al-Gadaffi in Libya. He blames the operation’s failure on American interference, and comments that ‘I cannot remember being so thoroughly fed up before in my life.’ Terrorism in Zambia […]
[…] its then editor, Roy Greenslade, made a public apology: ‘I am now convinced that Scargill didn’t misuse strike funds and that the union didn’t get money from Libya…. we were all taken in.’ (‘Sorry, Arthur….’, The Guardian, 27 May 2002), The authors of the original articles, however, remained adamantly unapologetic. (Terry Pattinson, Frank Thorne […]
[…] (23 June). It was a long piece and we had few complaints. Larry O’Hara’s name was cut from at least one piece of research, the National Front’s Libya connection, though an attributed quote of his did remain in our conclusion. Enter Searchlight In its July issue, which appeared days after the New Statesman, Searchlight […]
[…] which is acutely discomfited by the fact that genuinely stupid people can get to be president in the land of the brave and home of the free. Libya and Lockerbie In ‘Lockerbie trial was a CIA fix, US intelligence insider claims’, The Glasgow Herald reported some comments by Michael Scharf, who was the counsel […]
