[…] that deserve further scrutiny. Don Mullan’s The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings is one of the essential books of the Troubles. Deriving from the Yorkshire TV documentary, ‘ Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre’, broadcast on 6 July 1993, it shows that there is a strong case that there was an official cover-up in relation to […]
[…] October ‘efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond that date’, on a clandestine basis ‘so that the USG (US Government) and American hand will be well hidden’. It called for selective contact with military leaders wanting to strike against Allende (interestingly, Pinochet is not one of those named): the most likely candidate at […]
[…] he published his book on the CIA while living in Moscow? The non-defector books are hardly more encouraging. Take two recent examples, John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand (London 1983) and Dezinformatzia by Goodson and Schultz (London 1984). Barron’s book consists almost entirely of ‘interviews’ with Soviet defectors, tarted-up with reconstructed ‘dialogue’. Those […]
[…] in both overseas and domestic policy, engaged in continual bureaucratic warfare with the FBI, CIA, and local police forces, repeatedly discovering things that were supposed to stay hidden and trying to arrest ‘the wrong people’. In the introduction Valentine offers this summary: ‘The moral to their story is simple: in the process of penetrating […]
[…] the first to make drug control a hypocritical exercise in political posturing. It will not be the last if Congress and the public continue to ignore this hidden connection to the secret policies of presidents. Notes San Francisco Chronicle, 27 August 1987 This history, going back to World War II, is briefly described, with […]
[…] hands of the Guerillas of Christ the King, linked to Albert Spaggliari. In 1980 Gerald Cunningham led FBI agents to a warehouse where he had 1000 M10s hidden. He told the agents his company Weapons International Engineering and Research, had bought the weapons from Werbell. He didn’t tell them that he was Werbell’s partner […]
[…] Ireland in the 1970s. There is also a nod in the direction of the Gladio story of a European network of right wing military units with their hidden arms dumps. This stimulating novel even hints at an interconnection between the ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, which was designed to […]
[…] to the Cambridge call aside from Mary Ferrell’s discovery. A good three-quarters of it is blacked-out and it would be interesting to know just what is being hidden and why. I am trying for full disclosure under the FOI legislation and also through the Assassination Records Review Board. I also have some other inquiries […]
[…] US covert chemical/biological operations in the Gulf. David Guyatt’s reply to this will be in the next Lobster. From Mick Jones In his review article about Philby:The Hidden Years, John Burnes talks of the Comintern and the ‘Cambridge Comintern’ in a very broad way, as a label for the people who became Soviet agents. […]
[…] I haven’t seen it for several years but the issues I have seen didn’t seem that way to me. But we get Rose’s drift: Kwiatkowsky is a hidden anti-semite. David Rose: ‘Kwiatkowski told me she admired LaRouche’s work and admitted giving his editor, Jeff Steinberg, an interview. However, she also needed an echo chamber. […]
