[…] ten competing cereal brands on the shelf. Welcoming converts but not necessarily engaged in organised conversion (the equivalent, in retail terms, of no longer cutting prices to kill the competition in a winner take all tactic), the major faiths in Britain are playing the numbers game. Together they form a huge political lobby with […]
by Peter Padfield Papermac, London, 1993, £12.99 There are now several versions of the Hess affair. One is the official story – a politician whose star is one the wane, attempts a spectacular comeback, fails, is locked up for forty years and finally commits suicide in despair. Another is the double theory, first outlined in … Read more
Larry Tye New York: Owl Books, 2002, pb $16.00 ISBN 0 8050 6789 2 If Edward Bernays hadn’t existed, Edward Bernays would have invented him. And in fact this is more or less what happened. This is the long-awaited paperback edition of the first full-length biography of Bernays, who, like President Harry Truman, added … Read more
Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in the … Read more
[…] (if you’re black or a Native American) through to media character assassination, but it is a grim read. By world standards, The Great Satan hasn’t had to kill many at home since 1900; and why it hasn’t needed to is explained here. The author argues that the American state has gone ‘beyond bullets’, that […]
Mark Curtis Zed Books, 1995, £14.95/£39.95 The opening lines of Curtis’ introduction are: ‘In attempting to understand Britain’s role in the world, two approaches are possible. In the first, one can rely on the mainstream information system, consisting primarily of media and academia, where commentators are presumed to provide analyses of current independent of the … Read more
[PDF file]: […] “suitably grateful” for the DeMotte and other “fine stories” which Bennett had been “feeding” Woodward; and also an arrangement between Bennett and attorney Edward Bennett Williams to “kill off” revelations of the CIA’s relationship to Bennett’s agency, the Mullen Company. Edward Bennett Williams, the lawyer who previously had done work for the CIA with […]
[PDF file]: […] experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign heads of state. One of the key Watergate burglars, James McCord, had recently retired from a senior position in the Office of Security.8 For $500 […]
[…] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
[PDF file]: […] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
