[…] wrong he had suffered, he wrote letters to the leader of the Opposition about his unjust treatment. He was then smeared again – this time as a stalker. Cohen makes a half-plausible case for Special Branch ‘taking a look at’ Henderson. It may be – just – arguable that a dozen, non-threatening letters(4) to […]
[…] smeared and libelled Henderson in a way similar to their smearing and libelling of the Observer journalist Gregory Palast. Palast was a ‘sex pest’; Henderson a ‘ stalker’. Henderson then received the attention of the secret state, having his mail interfered with and (he thinks) his phone tapped. Henderson has written to everybody – […]
[…] feet, it was half way across Kamchatka and so far ahead of Major Vasiliy Kazmin’s MiG-23, that it reached the safety of the open seas before his stalker could catch up. Next, having raced across the Sea of Okhotsk, Captain Chun made a sharp north turn towards Sakhalin Island. Over Sakhalin, Chun again confounded […]
[…] was charged with defrauding the Midland Bank of £1.89 million. Two years later, a judge dismissed all the charges against him. But like Kevin Taylor in the Stalker case, the long and expensive bank fraud case had knocked him out of public life during the years before his acquittal. PII In the early stages […]
[…] In popular terms, collusive secrecy and law-breaking are part of how the deep political system works.'(6) Nobody who has witnessed Watergate, Irangate, Kincora, the Rainbow Warrior murders, Stalker, Colin Wallace, or any of the other significant exposes of the secret state activities of the past 25 years could really dispute this. Which is to […]
[…] agents were used by their intelligence handlers to bring about the deaths of certain members of the IRA’ (p. 193) ‘After twenty years, parts of the military machine were out of control’. (p. 192); Sound familiar? There is also what seems to me to be substantial new material pertaining to the Stalker and Stevens inquiries.
[…] in Private Eye (31 December), presumably Paul Foot, pointed out, Ware had already taken part in the rubbishing of Wallace, and Taylor in the rubbishing of John Stalker. Both men have also been given fairly astonishing access to sections of the British security and intelligence services to make TV programmes. Recently, Taylor has fronted […]
[…] businessman, Chair of Manchester Conservative Association, whose life and business were ruined by MI5 and the police looking for dirt with which to smear his friend John Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester. (See The Poisoned Tree, Kevin Taylor .) There are two key questions about incidents like these. At what level […]
This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]
[…] refused to respond or investigate when he and his family were subjected to serious harassment – including theft, criminal damage and threats of violence – by a stalker. Authorities must be held accountable ‘The key to improving our justice system is accountability,’ said McMahon. ‘As long as the police and the Crown Prosecution Service […]
