[…] resources on psyops has been the publicity surrounding former Army information officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace and allegations of a disinformation campaign.’ But I thought the MOD line was that Wallace was making it all up? Tara lives? Still in Wallace country, Roy Garland, former member of William ‘the Beast of Kincora’ McGrath’s […]
[…] (1965) Guardian (4th June 1982) “One important aerospace industry supplier, Fairey, admits that it has cleared the decks in some cases to meet urgent demands from the MOD.” See Desmond Young, Member for Mexico (1966); R. O’Connor The Oil Barons (1972); P. Calvert The Mexican Revolution (1968) See Sampson (note 27) p437. It seems […]
[…] SB had 65 members in 1979. Two page report City Limits (2 September 1983) on list of ex SB members and subsequent employment. Organisation hiring such include: MOD, Standard Telephone and Cable, Plessey, British Gas, and Saladin Security. Convicted murderer Ronald Waldron claims he was a contract killer for Mid East groups while employed […]
[…] involvement of the British machine tools industry in the Iraqi production of munitions. It even referred to ‘Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scott’s view, have refused licenses or the export of […]
[…] a matter of state security so why bother to tell a Liberal Democrat MP who was never going to be in charge of the Ministry; or the MoD was as much in the dark as the rest of us. But we should also look critically at claims on sources. By September we have references […]
[…] Freedom (CPF); John Selwyn Gummer, Party Chairman, and the man responsible for the anti-unilateralist campaign in the Churches; Peter Blaker, Minister of State for Defence; Ray Whitney, MOD spokesman and formerly of the Cold War propaganda unit IRD (and also of the Institute for European and Strategic Studies (IESS) and the Council for Arms […]
[…] my overcoat, in their front room, with them, Fred and his wife, Marie-Claire. At one point I said something like this: ‘So on one side there’s the MOD, MI5 and all their media assets, and on the other there’s us, with hardly a penny between us.’ Everybody laughed. We laughed a lot in those […]
Heather Brooke London: Pluto Press, 2005, £12.99 p/b This book is an invaluable guide for anyone thinking of using the new access laws chiefly the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations to obtain information from public authorities. It tells you how to go about obtaining information and appealing, and […]
[…] material and are thus impossible to evaluate at present. It is on the plus side that they were rubbished in the Sunday Times (26 November 1995) by MOD flacks James Adams and Liam Clarke; and Fred Holroyd, who was in working in Army Intelligence in the same patch in the same period, has not […]
[…] up in Whitehall to look at potentially embarrassing FOI requests, was hardly a surprise.(4) But I did not imagine something as ingenious as the claim by the MOD that millions of their files have been contaminated by asbestos and are therefore inaccessible. (5) Who dares to say that our civil servants are lacking in […]
