Iraq – fallout continues ‘Five years on from Hutton and we still haven’t been told the truth about the war based on lies’, fulminated Peter Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) … Read more
[…] to try and frustrate the closures. No reference is made to bringing company or country down. In the intervening twenty years Edwardes’ memory has gilded the lily. Spook think The Security Service mind is a wonderful thing. To it a potential risk is the same as an actual risk. Thus we discover that Lord […]
[…] information to know yet, but it is our suspicion that both groups were largely run by Catholics. Neil Elles — a barrister, later a member of the spook outfit, INTERDOC, a kind of European-wide Common Cause. INTERDOC is discussed below in the appendix. Christopher Blackett — a Scottish landowner and farmer, and, we presume […]
Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more
[…] anti-CIA, naming names etc.. The first issue of the Study Group on Intelligence Newsletter has appeared. This ‘Study Group’ is a group of British academics working in spook country, and how widely they are willing to release their newsletter is unclear. The first issue is rather good, containing a survey of British courses which […]
[…] reason to then conclude that the state has any operatives inside the local BNP. They might have – hell, let’s hope so! – but this isn’t evidence. Spook spotting in the media O’Hara believes, as I do, that the media contains journalists who run stories for Whitehall’s clandestine warriors. Our lists of such spook […]
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti,Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon Winter … Read more
[…] are protecting Grosvenor. The documents he presents at the address above show that the police and pols are certainly dragging their feet. Are they afraid of Grosvenor? Spook involvement is implied but not demonstrated, in my opinion. See for yourself. Big stuff. Grosvenor did not reply to my e-mails requesting an on-the-record statement about […]
Lost plot After Lobster 35 I received a long letter from John Pilger, followed by a revised version of it, complaining about my review of his recent book, Hidden Agendas in 35. With the second version came a note asking me to publish his letter without comment. I replied that I was happy to publish … Read more
[…] father had been active in the wartime resistance. MI5 thought the situation so obvious as to be hardly worth arguing about. In short, I was a Soviet spook. At the time, I knew nothing of the background. When Pat had burst into tears early in the relationship, asking me where I met my Soviet […]
