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[PDF file]: The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act Garrick Alder 
 ‘Freedom of Information. Three harmless words. I look at those words as I write them, and feel like shaking my head till it drops off my shoulders. You idiot. You naïve, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. There is really no […]

[…] the Foreign Secretary, expressly opposed such action. According to Chapman Pincher (Their Trade is Treachery p 206), in collaboration with leaders of the SAS, a plan to kill Nasser, his bodyguards, and anyone else who got in the way, was put together. They were going to use cannisters of poison gas . Eden vetoed […]

From April to late June 1992, I spent some three months in a Dutch refugee camp, OC Zeewolde. I had applied for political asylum. The Dutch authorities had agreed immediately, to fully process the application. I gave them no reason for my application. The Bosnian war was beginning and the Dutch reception centres for refugees … Read more

[…] knoll;(8) but recently I heard a whisper, allegedly sourced to a major Mafia figure, that to muddy any investigative waters there were three teams working independently to kill Kennedy, none of which knew about the other two. Whether or not the account of the source of this is true, it is an hypothesis which […]

[…] was running the UDA’s assassins against the IRA – and successfully, too. In effect, in the late 1980s the British state decided that while they could not kill the IRA openly (the late Alan Clark MP’s solution: let the SAS loose), they could get the Prods to do it for them. A case can […]

[…] very distraught telephone call during which Peachman informed me that he was “In terrible trouble”. He also stated that he could not go on and intended to kill himself. At this time I assumed Peachman’s state of mind was caused as a result of an investigation carried out into the affairs of IPI. Breaches […]

[…] the SAS, although a few are ex-Marine Commandos. (The Phoenix (Dublin) 30th March 1984) * * * The SAS trained 50 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) men to ‘kill on sight’. The squad is known as Echo Four Alpha (or E4A), sometimes working within special support units. Constable John Robinson, acquitted of the murder of […]

Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more

[…] – although I do not minimise this. In Iraq, we have estimates of deaths in the region of 300,000–600,000 since 2003 ()and, in Afghanistan, bombing raids still kill civilians.()If we are at war with insurgents, then the fear of the authorities that they might strike at us is simply the reflection of the dreadful […]