OMAN’S late dictator received decades of secret advice from a group of senior figures in the British Establishment, including heads of MI6 and a foreign minister, an investigation revealed today.
The secret group of advisers, including a British oil executive, an ex-governor of the Bank of England and six members of the House of Lords, may have broken transparency rules by failing to declare their services to a foreign head of state.
The existence of the secret group was revealed last week by former Tory MP Alan Duncan in his diary, with further revelations unearthed by Declassified, an investigative news site focused on British foreign policy and the military.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA


