The Ultimate Crime. Who Betrayed the UN and Why.

A secret history of the UN’s first fifty years. The book shows how world powers prevent the UN from doing the job it was created to do. It reveals the inner workings of the UN Security Council and explains how the international system is unaccountable to both press and public. It exposes the secretive selection process for UN Secretary General.

The Ultimate Crime provides a great deal of new information about the UN, describing successes and failures since its creation. The book gives a concise history of UN peacekeeping and describes in detail the tragic missions in Somalia, former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. It reveals and challenges the secrecy of the UN Security Council, describing how “UN policy” is devised in secret and informal session, often to disastrous effect, and away from press and public scrutiny.

The book exposes weaknesses in the UN system, and challenges the failure to reform the procedures for command and control of peacekeepers in the field. The book gives a comprehensive account of the anti-UN campaign waged continuously in the United States since the early fifties, beginning with the purging of radical UN staff and the activities of the FBI in the Secretariat building in New York. The book is the result of eight years research and with much of that time spent at the UN Secretariat in New York including at the UN archives, a remarkable and precious resource for those who want to study the history of international cooperation.