[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] have demanded curbs on privacy and the banning of encryption.’ But there is so far no evidence that encryption or steganography (a technique whereby a message is hidden inside a picture or music file transmitted over the internet) were used in planning the 11 Sept. attacks: ‘According to the FBI, the conspirators had not […]
[…] the KGB when running agents in the UK. These two aspects of the trial were held in camera, which meant about half the eight week trial was hidden from public scrutiny. The phone call A useful starting point is the phone call made to my home in Kingston-upon-Thames on the morning of 8 August […]
[…] GCHQ) during the war. There is now enough material around for a good book on GCHQ and its history. Who’s going to write it? KGB Today: The Hidden Hand John Barron (Coronet 1985) John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand is now available in paperback (Coronet 1985). Chapman Pincher in Too Secret Too Long […]
