Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator turned whistle-blower, claimed in 2002 to have uncovered an extensive nuclear black market with links to officials in governments across the globe, including the U.S. and U.K. Despite recent exposure this year in the U.K.’s Sunday Times,(1) her allegations have reached few other mainstream outlets. Despite being published […]
[…] of the Parliamentary Labour Party. The importance of Wallace, Holroyd, Peter Wright, Cathy Massiter et al in the 1980s was their falsification of this theory. MI5, the FBI and the Communist Parties of Britain and America In The Clandestine Caucus(3) I referred, in a footnote, to the extraordinary penetration of the Communist Party USA […]
[…] is background information only (eg mission and authority) on these agencies, including CIA, DIA, NSA NRO, Army Navy and Air force Intelligence, depts of State and Energy, FBI. National Security Agency http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ Information about NSA, mission statement, Venona Project, cryptologic museum. Defense Intelligence Agency http://www.dia.mil/ National Reconnaissance Office http://www.odci.gov/ic/usic/nro.html Background information only. NRO’s existence […]
[…] the Internet http://www.bernal.co.uk By Francisco Javier Bernal. Covers the technology of surveillance, including Echelon, SORM, Enfopol. Lots of references and links. Carnivore http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/ Info on Carnivore, the FBI internet monitoring system whose existence was reported in July 2000, and which it is feared could be used for widespread surveillance of email. Includes EPIC’s FOIA […]
[…] to President Johnson saying that her son had known Oswald when he was in Stanley, North Dakota. The letter was given by the Secret Service to the FBI who sent agents to interview both Timmer and his mother but, as Armstrong notes, there is no evidence that any of this investigation was ever passed […]
[…] Docker, Sir Vincent Caillard and Patrick Hannon. All were Midlands based, Rogers and Hannon Birmingham MPs; all of them with industrial interests in the Midlands. The BCU, FBI and the other essentially Midlands manufacturing group, the National Union of Manufacturers, were set up during the first World War, and they mark the origins of […]
[…] (can look at recent issue and back issues, http://www.epic.org/alert/). Site contains much information on the on-going debate and legislation in U.S. and Europe concerning encryption systems. The FBI and law enforcement agencies support encryption controls, high-tech companies and internet and civil liberties groups oppose. In the U.S. debate centres on the SAFE Bill (Security […]
US deception operation blowback The e-newsletter stuff (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to […]
[…] for, but there are overall governing forces to make sure they don’t get out of hand. The system is able to bring a maverick agency (like the FBI under Hoover) back into line. The classic example of this is the Presidency, Nixon and Watergate. Here is an interesting case where a President was perceived […]
[…] data and inventions to foreign governments. These included the USSR — who bought details of the particle beam weapon from him in 1937. Tesla was kept under FBI surveillance from the 1920s onward. For an academic work, Seifer’s book bravely treads in areas other more traditional authors would avoid. He shows the interest prominent […]
