[…] provided with a packed lunch.”‘ Love the bit about the packed lunch…. I’m old enough to remember when the Sunday Times was a credible paper. Timor docs hidden Under the headline, ‘Britain keeps lid on MI6 role in ousting Sukarno’, Paul Lashmar in The Independent on 5 October reported: ‘…documents which would reveal Britain’s […]
[…] novels, those seven seconds of mayhem in Dealey Plaza have been relentlessly examined for clues not just to a plot to kill the President, but to the hidden agenda of the last four decades of American history.’ A cute phrase, that: ‘seven seconds of mayhem.’ But, mayhem? I can think of many words to […]
[PDF file]: […] Nixon’s orders to engage in burglaries, forgery and other crimes to discredit his enemies and protect his most sensitive secrets. Perhaps the most explosive of his own hidden misdeeds was his treasonous intervention with South Vietnam during the 1968 campaign to prevent a bombing halt that might have swung the election to Vice President […]
[PDF file]: […] less visible connections to Prohibition-era liquor and gambling fortunes, which they helped launder into legitimate businesses over the course of the following decades. These businessmen used well- hidden criminal funds as seed capital to build new fortunes in fast-growing industries such as leisure, real estate, 5 media, and entertainment. Some were part of a […]
[PDF file]: […] title is in fact a juxtaposition of two contrary perspectives of his subject. For Valentine’s book to be an exposé it would have to reveal something previously hidden. In fact Valentine concludes his book with the entirely justifiable assertion that what he has described is in fact in plain sight, not hidden at all. […]
[PDF file]: […] minutely documented writing which became my exemplar. In the CovertAction piece Kuzmarov and Alexis Baden-Mayer write: She was also way ahead of her time in recognizing the hidden CIA involvement in Watergate, the Jonestown massacre, Charles Manson killings, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and murder of John Lennon among other “deep-state” crimes. Ah, a footnote! […]
[PDF file]: […] Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch D istinguished guests it is a great honour to give this keynote speech. I will use the 600,000 Foreign Office hidden files as a launching pad to examine the history of secrecy in Britain, why it is so persistent and pervasive, attempts to change it and what […]
[PDF file]: […] 293 See Bower, The Perfect English Spy, chapter 4 294 Wyatt fronting for IRD. 295 The Peril In Our Midst, (London: Phoenix House, 1956) Aidan Crawley, ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’, Sunday Times, 28 October 1962, reprinted as a pamphlet. Crawley fronting for whom? IRD seems the most likely answer. 296 65 saw […]
[PDF file]: […] the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: • Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. • The Hidden Face of the Labour Party • The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press accounts of the second […]
[PDF file]: […] thesis is about social control, corporations, the mass media and the techniques used by political and commercial PR to keep ‘the sheeple’ quiet on behalf of ‘the hidden elite minority’. Did I say agitprop? Within that, however, there is a decent guide to the techniques deployed. But that thesis is no more important, it […]
