[PDF file]: […] National Industrial Committee of the CPGB’. 10 The 1962 series of articles in the Sunday Times by the Tory MP Aidan Crawley, reprinted as a pamphlet, The Hidden Face of British Communism, had Kerrigan and the ‘advisory committees which meet in secret to decide how party policy is to be applied to their own […]
[PDF file]: […] were then forwarded to Iraq or Iran, usually funneled through Jordan or Cyprus (some shipments of propellant – falsely labelled as chocolate – were, unknown to him, hidden among consignments sent through Asil Nadir’s Unipac in North Cyprus). Exposure and shut-down But by 1986-87 the story was beginning to unravel. Astra Explosives in Kent […]
[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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* ‘Intelligence’ you call it? On Quora there are interesting posts by one Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, who describes himself as having been a member of Central Planning at NATO.1 Thus far no-one […]
[PDF file]: […] we look back at a time when the talk was more important than the walk, and when scruffy entrepreneurs were courted by greedy venture capitalists, their ties hidden in their pockets.’ The crash was even more severe on Wall Street, and in an ominous foretaste of what was to come, the Federal Reserve Board […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish […]
[…] 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 […]
