[…] one million pounds from defence contractors and others in exchange for steering government contracts their way and other favours (The Times, 4 March 2006). Similarly, senior British MOD civil servant Michael Hale was jailed for two years in April this year for accepting bribes from an American company (Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2007). The […]
[…] unremitting hostility to the European Union and his love of Bob Marley’s music. But nearly a decade ago he was the intermediary 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. […]
[…] are being denied by the British and American military establishments.See, for example, Michael Clarke, ‘Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan: Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox’ at and Leuren Moret, ‘Depleted Uranium is WMD’ at . There must be special section of Hell reserved for the lawyers who work for the MOD and US Army.
[…] alleges CIA getting their information (re above) from Ministry of Defence. Guardian 14th April In Sunday Times piece (above) link said to be ‘US liaison staff at MOD’. Castro Enteritis Mike Osbourne in Undercurrents Feb/March 1984 Valuable 3pp summary of US (mainly CIA) attempts to wreak eco-war on Cuba’s crops, animals, weather, people. Undercurrents […]
[…] to ‘a small undercover SAS team stationed at Castledillon in the mid 1970s’. One interpretation of these shifting accounts, all sourced directly or indirectly back to the MOD, is that the Ministry is inching up on the truth – i.e. Fred Holroyd’s position – but doing it slowly in the hope that no-one will […]
[…] in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified lobbying of MPs, but a Lord Levy LFI fundraiser at the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] 1989 the then Secretary of State for Defence, Tom King, and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, misled Parliament by not only suppressing the conclusions of an internal MoD inquiry, but also by replacing that inquiry with a new one which had much more restricted terms of reference. For example, the Defence Secretary wrote to […]
[PDF file]: […] for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at . 4 3 used by Wallace to highlight McGrath’s homosexuality and his role in running a children’s home) and wrote […]
[PDF file]: […] 8 Foreign Office quoted in Curtis (see note 5) p. 41. security interests.’9 To the general public, NATO is promoted as a humanitarian intervener. As the UK MoD has said, the public only tolerates war when it perceives ‘moral legitimacy’. Libya has the largest known oil reserves in Africa. Nigeria has the second largest […]
[…] for a devastating and embarrassing intelligence dump which has prompted our closest allies to question whether the UK can be trusted. He has been stripped of his MOD role but amazingly has not been charged either at the MOD or in the Foreign Office to which he is responsible. Why did Whitehall fail to […]
