[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] run. < http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-germany-us-radar-victims10 09oct08,0,6890601.story > The Sun 8 October 2002 devoted its front page and two inside pages to the discovery that mobile phone transmitters are being hidden in the price signs of garage forecourts. Having screamed ‘Hidden phone masts shock’ on the front, on p. 13 there was a little paragraph giving the […]
[…] 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 […]
