[…] services.’ (9 December, 1993) The only bit they missed out was that MI6 got to play their ‘Eastern European threat after Communism’ card (not Communism now, but drugs and guns).(3) And was it ‘badly formulated’? It looks like rather successful psy-ops to me. The first crack in the wall was in the Evening Standard […]
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the […]
[…] the termination of testing on unwitting subjects, Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Helms continued to advocate covert testing on the ground that ‘positive operational capability to use drugs is diminished, owing to lack of realistic testing……we are less capable of staying up with the Soviet advances in this field.'(11) On the subject of moral […]
[…] included speakers involved with high profile campaigns. Kevin McMahon, of Merseyside Against Injustice, joined the Merseyside Police in 1979 and subsequently worked as a detective, working on drugs, vice and murder, and as a Special Branch officer. He had formally been a special investigator in the Royal Military Police. He described how, as a […]
[…] since the Second World War. It has over-thrown governments, sponsored wars, carried out assassinations and terrorist attacks, organised and financed death squads, kidnapped and tortured, trafficked in drugs and weapons, bribed and blackmailed, and even worked with the Mafia.(2) Despite this it remains a ‘respectable’ organisation, listened to by Western governments, maintaining stations throughout […]
[…] court heard. Both Haase and Bennett are currently on trial for perverting the course of justice, accused of duping the authorities by setting up fake gun and drugs caches in order to get an early release.’ 9/11 The thought does occur that there are so many things the American state would rather the American […]
Intelligence and National Security Started in 1986, Intelligence and National Security is co-edited by Christopher Andrew and Michael Handel, and is the first British academic journal devoted to the area. I’ve seen 3 issues and while the standard of writing and research is extremely high from contributors like Lawrence Freedman, M.R.D.Foot and Bradley Smith, the … Read more
[…] But most OTOers are Bohemians who associate the political right with fundamentalist Christians and other cultural conservatives. They also don’t worship Satan, or rape children, or deal drugs, or have much money. Some of them do participate in the occasional orgy, but you shouldn’t picture anything like that scene in Eyes Wide Shut – […]
[…] even to some extent fraud, for more legitimate business. This last statement should be qualified by saying that legitimate business hides dealings in illegitimate commodities, such as drugs. A few serious professional criminals who saw the sign of the times moved into new technology. However, I think that one could say that a great […]
[…] pp2/3 of the P.D. Scott essay in Lobster 12. Anslinger was the primary originator of the basic US foreign policy move of accusing your enemies of running drugs into the otherwise innocent bodies of the US citizenry (China, Cuba, Nicaragua), while allowing your political allies (KMT, anti-Castro Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This […]
