[…] “aimed to boost exports of steel and steel products to the Soviet Union.” (22) His recent expressions of outrage at the National Union of Mineworkers’ contacts with Libya should be viewed in this light. There is a lot more to say about MacGregor and his connections (23) but it seems clear from all this […]
[…] by frogmen who attached plastic explosives to the hull in a botched job by the BVD Dutch secret service. In January 1977 it sailed from Rotterdam for Libya……. The world’s intelligence community knew all about Edwin Bollier. The enduring question must be why his activities were tolerated.’ Harris, who now writes for Jane’s Intelligence […]
[…] have operated in Central America, Italy (in the rescue of James Dozier) and in Africa, with a country “which doesn’t have diplomatic relations with the US”. ( Libya?) IHT (12th May) report that some of its operations were run out of Fort Bragg, as an extension of the Army’s Special Forces; that the unit […]
[…] foreign agents on international quangos. Another interesting consultancy is Strategic Profile International (SPI) which has offices in Carlton Terrace Gardens. One of SPI’s clients is the British- Libya Business Group. I apologise if neither SPI nor its clients have anything to do with espionage. (Joke I heard in Geneva: Q. Why are SIS Consultancies […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] controlled Angola, Cape Verde, GuineaBissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe. Spain controlled Equatorial Guinea, parts of Morocco, and Western Sahara. Fascist Italy controlled Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Libya. Germany controlled Namibia, Togo/Togoland. And the United States controlled Liberia. The Dutch regions of South Africa gradually developed into colonies between the 17th and 20th centuries. […]
[PDF file]: […] have been seen as an ill omen for future efforts to conduct foreign policy through corporate mercenary warfare. Although British military support to the 2011 revolution in Libya was both grudging and minimal it seems that many of the ‘military advisors’ to the Libyan revolutionary forces were, in fact, private contractors employed by Aegis […]
[PDF file]: […] to bear this in mind when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuffmovie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by Qaddafi’s murder was not accidental. When Ronald Reagan called Qaddafi a ‘mad dog’ he was following a carefully honed script. This ‘mad dog’ […]
[PDF file]: […] early in its flight from London to New York, the Daily Express’s front page identified ‘The Bomb Carrier’ from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after brilliant police work by the Dumfries and […]
[…] author has essays in Lobsters 67 and 68; and in issue 72 I reviewed an earlier book of his, Britain’s Secret Wars, at . 2 terrorists in Libya and Syria; and one on blowback – the unintended domestic consequences of imperial adventures. There is also a chapter on simulations, faking an event. He discusses […]
