[…] short (115 pages plus notes and index) account of various deceptions (and alleged deceptions) by governments in the past 100 years or so – the ‘long and hidden history of official lies and military-political manoeuvring’ – most of which will be familiar to readers of this magazine. The list begins with the sinking of […]
[…] with Harry Pollitt about Russian comrades who had disappeared since the last time he was over there – conversations always held in a graveyard to avoid the hidden microphones at Communist Party Headquarters.’ These stories were told later in life to new faces. Newton did not go to Leeds University but to Hull, where, […]
[…] Given the absolute absence of accountability and oversight in the EU, what would you expect? Right: massive institutionalised corruption; gravy trains for friends, supporters, family. And barely hidden. Von Buitenen, an accountant and a Christian, apparently the only honest man with any bottle on the EU staff, didn’t have to look hard to find […]
[…] a lot of phone-bashing and travelling, Armstrong validates the Cutler-Morris thesis – there was a switch – and has tried to trace the life of the ‘ hidden’ Oswald. He appears to have established the existence of an intelligence operation which began with two boys, of different heights, but who looked similar and who […]
[…] CIA analysts were providing. ‘The analysts cite, to no avail, a very secret Text No. 5, a CIA disinformation campaign in Europe, that was probably (sic) the hidden source of Text No. 3. ‘In 1984 Text No. 6 appears, Sterling’s The Time of Assassins, which argues that the KGB was indeed behind the papal […]
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
[…] columnist Ray Hill, and the magazine itself, in relation to an August 1993 article in the ‘Hill Street News’ column. Riley is the author of Philby: the Hidden Years, the second edition of which was published by Janus of London last year . Janus publisher Sandy Leung gave evidence for Riley. Judge Walker sent […]
[…] evidence.’ I never decided whether I believed this or not. The high point of his propaganda activities was probably the publication in 1974 and 1979 of The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of the Labour Party by ‘communists’ and, in the 1979 version, by ‘communist’ […]
[…] that it isn’t produced in the USA, but Australia. Somehow — how? why? — the Australian cultural climate has produced the same curious, populist (yes) nexus of hidden history, conspiracy theories, suppressed cures and medicines, and ‘free’ energy devices hitherto only seen in the USA. How real most of it is, I have no […]
[…] so far as I can judge, the author recounts a complete story within the picture she gives. Of course, much of the essential story may remain perpetually hidden, and readers of Lobster may know more of some aspects than is revealed in this book’s 279 pages. What I found most compelling was the growing […]
