[…] around the country in a Chinook helicopter. Aislinn Simpson, ‘William flies into a storm for landing at Kate’s…’, The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2008; Andy McSmith, ‘ MoD admits it was naive to allow Prince William’s joyrides in helicopters’, The Independent, 24 April 2008. The official website contains not only transcripts of each day’s […]
Wensley Clarkson Blake Publishing, London 1998, £16.99 Remember Jonathan Moyle, the ex-RAF officer, editor of Defence Helicopter World, who was found dead, hanging in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Chile in 1990? This is about him – and about his death. It is done in the most irritating manner possible, written as a […]
[…] Department to be purely administrative in function and would only have thought about any possible political repercussions if Legg had held a similar position at, say, the MOD or the Foreign Office. After fully investigating me, an investigation of which I was unaware at the time, the Security Service, with a little help from […]
[…] that is not of its own making, with its own ‘stab in the back’ legend. British officers were certainly open about their situation before withdrawal despite desperate MoD attempts to restrict their communications with the outside world. The view of the military in Southern Iraq was that the Americans would now fare no better: […]
[…] an engineering firm facing criminal charges as part of an international black market in stolen British naval parts. (Observer 28 October 1984), and an army major in MOD intelligence (plus his wife and 2 kids).(Sunday Telegraph 2 September 1984) The newsagency, Reuters, is so widely assumed to be a routine cover for British intelligence […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
