[PDF file]: Classified Secrecy and the state in modern Britain Christopher Moran Cambridge University Press, 2012, £22.00, hardback M ost of this is a decently written and entertaining account of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage […]
[PDF file]: […] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]
[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary […]
[PDF file]: […] a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ which climaxed with ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright. In his affidavit to the court in Australia where the British government was trying to suppress his book Wright wrote, ‘The present state of Britain is […]
[…] a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ which climaxed with ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright. In his affidavit to the court in Australia where the British government was trying to suppress his book Wright wrote, ‘The present state of Britain is […]
[PDF file]: Murdoch, Rothschild and the nuclear lobby 1 Matthew Zarb-Cousin In his 1956 book The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills illustrated the way in which the elite work together, are interconnected – both socially and in business – and therefore take each other into account when they make decisions….. Rupert Murdoch and the financial sector […]
[…] a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ which climaxed with ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright. In his affidavit to the court in Australia where the British government was trying to suppress his book Wright wrote, ‘The present state of Britain is […]
[PDF file]: […] “MI5”. Pincher says it was a group of MI5 and ex MI5 personnel. David Leigh (Observer 15 September 1985) has hinted that among those involved was Peter Wright, one of the leading figures in the campaign against former MI5 head Roger Hollis. Wright is obviously one of Pincher’s major sources for his last two […]
[PDF file]: […] Details of the tax agency’s remarkable leniency emerged in 1964 hearings held by a subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Small Business, chaired by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, to study the impact on the U.S. economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts. The subcommittee’s study director, H. A. Olsher, struggled to deal with […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex […]
