[…] Jews were recent immigrants, hysteria against German ‘spies’ and ‘aliens’ became readily mixed with anti-semitism when WWI began. Some sections of the press talked of the ‘ Hidden Hand’ which, in the words of one historian, was believed to be: “a confederacy of evil men taking their orders from Berlin, dedicated to the downfall […]
[…] to Kennedy for possible blackmail – probably because of her Czech background. (For some reason Novotny believed that photos existed of her love making sessions taken from hidden cameras in the UN building.) It was reported that on leaving America Towers went to Prague, Moscow, and Peking, stopping for a time in southern Ireland […]
[…] this does not mean that the Warren Commission’s reconstruction of the assassination is accurate. Real covert politics However that may be, real covert politics, although by definition hidden or disguised and often deleterious in their impact, simply do not correspond to the bleak, simplistic image propounded by conspiracy theorists. Far from embodying metaphysical evil, […]
[…] I hope to show that it, and its predecessors, are powerful enough to help make history themselves. However they do not do so overtly, but as a hidden Force X whose presence is not normally acknowledged in the polite discourse of academic political scientists. On the contrary, as we shall see, references to it […]
[…] the best books on the UK’s intelligence services, up there with Stephen Dorril’s MI6 book, Paul Lashmar and James Oliver’s book on IRD and Richard Aldrich’s The Hidden Hand. Rereading it, I was struck by the following. Although we now know quite a lot about MI5’s recent history, almost none of it has come […]
[…] anon in Dubai and Simon Matthews for cuttings and other information. Morris Riley – an apology In Lobster 37 (p. 47) I said his book, Philby: the Hidden Years, had been ‘published without anyone looking at the final typeset copy’. This is false. I failed to notice the publisher’s explanation for the long underlined […]
[…] a town where Jones preached as a child), and kept (Jones) from being arrested or run out of town.’ This information is attributed to A. J. Langguth’s Hidden Terrors, which does, in fact, tell us that Dan Mitrione was a police chief in Richmond, Ind. But this is well known. What’s interesting and important […]
[…] we had nothing to with it”.’ (10) Weapons? Which weapons? The British ‘plagiarised’ text of February 2002 was prepared to bolster the notion that the Iraqis had hidden weapons of mass destruction. This had been asserted ad nauseam but not proved. Why hadn’t it been demonstrated? On 24 February the American magazine Newsday reported […]
[…] executive led by his or her party. This was a quiet revolution – with echoes of Germany in 1934 – but the accretion of executive power was hidden in the folds of a party reform scarcely noticed by the press or wider public. The next consequence was that the powerful elements in the party […]
[…] anything emerge from these discussions between Tracey and Mayhew? We are unaware of any international organisation formed in this period fitting this description. Is there a still hidden organisation? This seems unlikely. However an anti-communist organisation, not unlike ‘an unofficial organisation of trade unionists’ was created. This was Common Cause, but its focus was […]
