Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War Larry O’Hara Phoenix Press, London, 1994, £6 (p and p included) from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX; cheques payable to Larry O’Hara. Since 1945 MI5 has had three main domestic targets: Soviet bloc espionage, the British Left and the IRA. With the Soviet target gone, … Read more
[…] out early, as if they had known in advance that the rescue mission would “fail.” Iran’s police and military had also been pre-alerted, and were waiting to kill all American hostages, agents and diplomats had the operation gone forward (Rebel, Jan. 1984). The Rev. Charles Moore, then of Houston, Texas, was in Tehran at […]
[…] numbers of Kenyans. Figures vary but maybe more than 30,000 died. (Ferudi is unable to completely conceal this from his reader and notes that in 1956 “the kill rate remained high’.) Secondly, he has nothing at all to say about the British secret state’s attempts to contain and deflect Kenyan nationalism. In other words: […]
[…] the Reagan administration of an embarrassing individual – Larry McDonald. (The source of the embarrassment is detailed below.) Flynt’s hypothesis seems implausible (there are easier ways to kill people) but, as Flynt points out, Howard Hunt’s wife, Dorothy, was killed in a plane crash during the Watergate mess in very peculiar circumstances. (On this […]
[…] Habsburgs and Intermarium since the 1920s.() Seeking, perhaps, to pursue this opening given the silence from the British the German resistance made two attempts to kill Hitler (13 and 21 March 1943). Meanwhile the Hitler-Stalin proposal flickered back into life. In June 1943 serious talks were held in Stockholm and there was […]
[…] Lebanon to “experience the thrill of killing people” and of thousands visiting the PLO mini-state in Lebanon who were “given a license to satisfy their instinct to kill” (emphasis added); and alleges that the bombings in 1980 at Bologna railway station and the Octoberfest in Munich “were carried out by Germans and Italians working […]
[…] name of Lady Bird) purchased the Austin radio station KTBC in 1953, it was first located in the Brown Building, and later moved to the Brown-owned Dris kill building for which. KTBC did not have to pay. (11) The Texas political culture of the time was described thus: ‘What must surely be the most […]
The Last Investigation Gaeton Fonzi Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1993 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Peter Dale Scott University of California Press London and Berkeley, 1993 With Dick Russell’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, reviewed above by Alex Cox, these books are the best of the post Oliver Stone wave that … Read more
A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more
[…] who’s pulling the trigger and indeed may have encouraged it in the first place – but its fingerprints are rarely, if ever, found.’ Philip Johnson, ‘Licensed to kill? Yes, but…’, The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2008. See also Stephen Dorril, ‘The truth about MI6…’, The Express, 22 February 2008. Dearlove’s evidence at the inquest […]
