[PDF file]: […] from interviews used by Cornelius Ryan – that I will briefly recount a little of what still largely remains to the British public a part of our hidden history. Urquhart recounts that in 1941 ‘Boy’ Browning, the youthful, ambitious and well-connected husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier (their daughter was later to marry Montgomery’s […]
[PDF file]: […] resources necessary for the British forces to have any serious chance of completing their mission successfully. Troop numbers were wholly inadequate. The resulting fiasco has been largely hidden from public view, not least courtesy of the Murdoch press that celebrated the whole sad affair as a glorious victory. But historians are certain to see […]
[PDF file]: […] 7 Routledge (see note 4) p. 271 8 For summaries of Whitehall’s wartime anti-Sovietism and preparations for the post-war era, see for example, Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War secret intelligence (London: John Murray, 2001) chapter 2 or Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, (London: Fourth Estate, […]
[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At its […]
[PDF file]: […] sometimes with newspaper clippings or photos attached. Each person had their National Insurance number and other personal data to identify them. The source of the information was hidden by code numbers although Kerr has given a list of these to the ICO. 20 Steve Kelly, 43, from Essex, was one who received a copy […]
[…] Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) History […]
[…] are largely only pawns, radicalized with weaponized nationalism to face killing and death without squinting in the service of empire. Meanwhile, safely a few steps detached and hidden behind the façade of liberalism or feigned benevolence and endless trails of front organizations, the power players keep their hands clean and faces out of sight. […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics working on the Information Research Department (IRD), now that some of its official files are open to inspection.1 Cormac recently wrote an essay with the provocative title ‘In defence of the Information Research Department’.2 He writes: At its […]
[…] were several individuals removed from the train other than the three individuals previously identified.’ script of the film made by Dankbar about Holt, ‘Spooks, Hoods and the Hidden Elite’, followed by photographs and copies of letters. In effect we have a memoir plus three abbreviated versions of the same material. Holt says he went […]
