[…] this at all. At 900 pages, it is a massive and impressive work, one which attempts an overview of the last fifty years of MI6’s operational his tory. Perforce, the bulk of it is concerned with the Cold War, and then mainly in Europe. This isn’t overly eurocentric on Dorril’s part: his preface states […]
[…] SIS seeking credit from the former satellites for taking on the Evil Empire?) White, the SIS reformer, was opposed by certain officers in Broadway, supported outside by Tory MPs like Julian Amery.(2) At pp. 169 and 170 we get an account of these ‘robber barons’, the senior officers, section heads, portrayed as seedy, complacent, […]
[…] Hill, were in court to hear the verdict. Mr Hill had denied writing the article in question. Tinker, tailor, soldier, granny The Melita Norwood, ‘Stalin’s granny’, s tory opened the columns of The Times on 13 September 1999 to no less than Brian Crozier.(1) Crozier told us, inter alia: For decades, I was one […]
Gregory Palast is the journalist who broke the ‘cash for access’ story in The Observer. Here is the text of a letter he wrote on August 18 1999 to the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Neill Committee, by way of a preface and request to give oral evidence to that committee. My recommendations … Read more
Preface This paper was written for the His tory Workshop 20 in Leeds, during November 1986. In the workshop which I gave, I introduced the paper by pointing out that the arguments within it were very general and the paper itself entirely polemical. I explained that each of my last three books contain detailed […]
[…] be shot or, like Oleg Penkofsky, lowered slowly into a well stoked furnace while colleagues were forced to watch.’ As far as I am aware, this s tory about the furnace first appeared as the prologue to Victor Suvorov’s Aquarium (Grafton, London, 1987). Except in that version the person fed into the furnace in […]
[…] public meeting. An individual was invited to it who has never been a Socialist, who will never be prepared to vote Labour and who thinks that the Tory party is the natural governing party of Britain. He was invited to share a platform with myself and some of the relatives of those who have […]
Back to the future: the USA, the UK and Iraq The US threatens to attack Iraq and is backed by the UK. There are objections in the UN Security Council from Russia and France. A large task force is assembled. Guess what happens next? Not a lot. There is a diplomatic crisis temporarily resolved after … Read more
[…] are really not very interesting. Volume 1, the memories of people involved in the 1975 referendum, contains almost nothing that we didn’t know already. The familiar s tory is re-told: the ‘anti’ campaign had little money and, because they were composed of the Labour left and Tory right, had difficulty working together; they didn’t […]
[…] into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this s tory, Ware went to see Colin Wallace, eventually spending four days going through Wallace’s biography, his allegations, and photocopying some of his documents. Then three things happened. […]
