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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 51) Summer 2006 Last | Contents | Next Issue 51 A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood (New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary [North Carolina], 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) Honorable Men William Colby London: Hutchinson, 1981 Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?Michael Holzman Many people find stories about spies interesting. Some of us identify with ...
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... Munich agreement in 1938 and the very under reported but considerable peace manoeuvres between August 1942 and September 1943. Despite a background which was quite similar to many centre-rightists within the German officer class, British diplomats, politicians and spies had problems categorising Canaris. They never quite understood his intellectual hinterland. He was described rather sniffily by Military Intelligence, as 'a kind of Catholic mystic'. Little was produced (by them) to support this assertion, although the author notes that he did apparently enjoy visiting Spanish churches and throughout his career had excellent relations with the Vatican. Canaris is described as shabby, insignificant looking, highly intelligent etc. a man very similar to the ...
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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 51) Summer 2006 Last | Contents | Next Issue 51 Historical Notes Scott Newton James Jesus Angleton and the 'Third Way'The CIA counter-intelligence expert James Angleton has for years been regarded as one of the keenest of cold warriors, who turned the CIA inside out in the search for Soviet 'moles' and ultimately had to be retired to prevent further damage to the Agency. But interesting current research shows that Angleton's politics were by no means those of the conventional anti-Communist: he appears to have been a man of convictions but these were not necessarily those of modern capitalism. These reflections ...
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... small, deter-mined clique to seize control of vital aspects of US national policy, particularly in affairs concerning the Middle East. But the neo-cons rising to prominence under Nixon and the bane of Kissinger have a perhaps neglected provenance in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. The crippling of the 455-foot USS Liberty, a SIGINT intelligence vessel run jointly by the US navy and the NSA, in a sustained two hour attack by Israeli bombers and torpedo craft at the height of the 1967 Middle East war, is still regarded as a distressing but understandable incident of 'friendly fire' by most mainstream historians.(1 ) This view, challenged by historian of the NSA ...
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... Fisk.) But Pencourt didn't pursue the 'press officer in Northern Ireland'. Up popped the late Peter Bessel, Liberal MP and CIA agent, to steer them towards Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott instead. The second significant snippet was the news that Jonathan Aitken had been hand-carrying messages from James Angleton, CIA's head of counter-intelligence, to Mrs Thatcher, then leader of the opposition. What these said we don't know but I think we may presume, as the programme did, that they contained some version of Angleton's suspicion that Wilson was a KGB agent. These letters must have had some weight in Thatcher's decision to take the KGB agent nonsense about Wilson to ...
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... Into the Dark Johnston Brown Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2006, 22.99, h/b Out of the blue and into the black Roger Cottrell When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. (1 ) Despite efforts on the part of Martin Dillon in The Dirty War (Hutchinson, 1989) to smear Holroyd as an embittered ex-soldier motivated purely by vengeance, Holroyd's claims have also been vindicated. (2 ) Not only did Nairac execute the IRA terrorist John Francis ...
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... ( [3 ] ) in a prosecution so stinky that the chief law officer of Scotland resigned rather than present the case.( [4 ] ) In MarchThe Scotsman carried the comments of Juval Aviv, PamAm's senior Lockerbie investigator.( [5 ] ) Aviv offered a version of the story first told by Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, in Trail of the Octopus. ( [6 ] ) The Aviv-Coleman version is that the bomb was put on the plane at Frankfurt. In 1987 US agents began monitoring a heroin smuggling route from the Middle East to the United States, run by drug dealers linked to terrorists holding western hostages ...
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... ) have followed Malcolm Kennedy's case. The human rights organisation, Liberty, took his complaint about interference with his communications and other forms of surveillance and harassment, to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints relating to conduct by the Security and Intelligence agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It also deals with claims under the Human Rights Act 1998, s7(1 )( a ) that a public authority has acted in a manner incompatible with a Convention right. It was claimed that the right guaranteed by Article 8(1 ) of the European Convention on Human Rights ...
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... after 9-11. These chapters are slightly less satisfactory less magisterial, perhaps than the historical overviews that preceded them. It's partly that current affairs is a moving target. In the case of why the Americans attacked Iraq, for example, our knowledge of the actual decision-making process is growing by the week as the military and intelligence bureaucracies leak in the great game of avoiding the blame for the disaster; and the know-ledge that the actual evidence is increasingly available diminishes Porter's discussion of the possible reasons for the invasion and the slaughter. And it is partly that Porter's attempt, qua historian, to be fair means taking seriously what would be dismissed by non ...
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... plots? At any rate this trio of people and who knows how many others? knew something. But on the actual shootings there is nothing here. Of mob or Cuban hitmen on Dealey Plaza or in Chicago or Tampa there is no evidence. The case they do make is that after the event Robert Kennedy and the entire military-intelligence complex in the US had a major interest in not revealing anything about the several operations that were going on against Castro. The Kennedy 'coup' plan was the politically most sensitive (the CIA were running others) and it was this, say the authors, which prevented Robert and the rest of the Kennedy intimates from pursuing JFK's death ...
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