Accountability I will be discussing a non subject the accountability of the intelligence services. By accountable we mean the ability to be brought to account, to be answerable for their actions, to be subject to scrutiny and ultimately to have their actions adjudicated upon in a court of law. I will be looking […]
[…] is Electronic Privacy/ECHELON The importance of taking advantage of the current debate about Echelon summarised by Nicky Hager: ‘…the lack of serious debate can protect the intelligence agencies from political accountability and control…..it is probably the best opportunity we will have for many years to build public understanding and impose controls on surveillance […]
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 […]
[…] the May 9, 1979 execution of the leader of the Jewish community in Tehran, Habib Elkanian (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 22, 1986), and were discovered by U.S. intelligence and reported to Carter in the spring of 1980, (Jody Powell, syndicated column, Houston Post, Jan. 14, 1987; San Francisco Examiner, January 16, 1987). Carter’s attempt […]
[…] nature of the research have been concealed from the public and Congress. The triggering mechanism for the Pentagon’s ‘black projects’ in this field, funded through the Central Intelligence Agency, with the help and association of DIA, NSA, as well as a number of governmental and non-governmental research laboratories, has been the substantial progress made […]
[…] any pressure on the drug warlords inside Afghanistan. “There’s absolutely no threat to the labs inside Afghanistan,” said Avaz Yuldashov of the Tajikistan Drug Control Agency. “Our intelligence shows there are 400 labs making heroin there, and 80 of them are situated right along our border … Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main […]
British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B […]
[…] US Govt Manual (the official handbook of the US Federal Govt, with comprehensive info on govt agencies and related organisations www.access.gpo.gov/nara/browse-gm.html) Executive Orders – Presidential EOs, and Intelligence docs – EOs related to intelligence activities. Historic Documents, including Cold War, Cold War International History Project (http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm), Cuban Missile Crisis (full text of 250 official […]
Inside Intelligence Anthony Cavendish Palu Publishing Ltd. 1987 Although many hundreds of books have been written on British Intelligence, very few have tackled post-war intelligence in any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. […]
[…] over punctuation and sentence construction, no changes have been made to the original. As with others in World War Two it was chance that brought Young into intelligence work. Seconded from the K.O.S.B. (presumably, King’s Own Scottish Borderers) to the King’s African Rifles, he arrived in East Africa in January 1941 just as the […]
