[…] 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 […]
[…] it, the media operate with an array of moral and political assumptions, roughly speaking those of the liberal-individualist ideology of Western culture with its emotivist ethics and hidden dependence on existing power structures. After Dark broke all these rules from the beginning, built as it was by the Viennese to reflect the polygon of […]
[…] intelligence personnel, they in fact refer to different sorts of actions. According to former Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative Christopher Felix (pseudonym) clandestine operations are ‘ hidden but not disguised’, whereas covert operations are ‘disguised but not hidden’. Thus the former would apply to a group of camoflaged armed men seeking to disembark […]
[…] dollar. (2) The seventh largest company in the US, supposedly dominating its market and generating handsome returns, in reality had generated a debt mountain. The debt was hidden in 2000-3000 offshore partnerships set up and managed with thousands of as yet unknown partners. Fastow and Skilling made yet more millions from this. The more […]
[…] existence, it was swiftly transferred to the Philippines. Why the Philippines was chosen is not exactly clear, but it was also the location of Japanese war plunder hidden there by an organisation known as ‘The Golden Lily’, a covert agency of the Japanese government with its headquarters in Manila. Other substantial amounts of loot […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in serious criminal offences. Stalker began to think that there might be a common thread behind the killings which might lead to similar incidents which had been hidden away. He also suspected that an agent provocateur was at work and that his information may have been bogus. The Mounsey inquiry The withdrawal of co-operation […]
[…] been revealed. (67) Final thoughts on ‘the wave’ I must again offer a caveat about possible disparities between the ‘official’ record of electromagnetism’s psychological effects and the hidden history. Once more we face a question of timing. How long ago did this research really begin? In the early years of this century, Nikola Tesla […]
