[PDF file]: […] exposed him. In his biography of Philby, Phillip Knightley reports that the failure of Operation Valuable stemmed from the penetration of Albanian émigré organizations by the Albanian security service, ‘and more than one of these penetration agents managed to be selected for the CIA-SIS operation’.26 Some years after this, in 2013, Knightley told me: […]
[PDF file]: Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less Roderick Russell Dr. Arthur Porter, the former chair of Canada’s spy watchdog, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), is in prison in Panama awaiting extradition to Canada where he faces multiple charges that include allegations of bribe taking, money laundering and conspiracy. Two […]
[PDF file]: […] 1963. In that month the issuance of NSAM 213 reorganised the Kennedy administration’s handling of Cuban relations. A White House memo dated 4 March, written by national security advisor Gordon Chase, records Kennedy instructing staff to ‘start thinking along more flexible lines’.1 What Kennedy was approving was something slightly, but significantly, For NSAM 213 […]
[PDF file]: […] is not very hopeful. Which brings us to Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism, by far the best of the three books under review. Boot is a security specialist, the author of a number of books on insurgency and counter-insurgency, most recently a study of Edward Lansdale (The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and […]
[PDF file]: […] he did win the nomination, he would never beat Hillary Clinton. Even so, many leading Republicans, especially those involved in the areas of foreign policy and national security, determined to do their best to stop Trump even if it meant a Clinton victory. Trump was just too dangerous to be allowed into the Oval […]
[PDF file]: […] wandering around the Renfrewshire farming community prior to being interrogated for two hours in German by the part-time Polish Consul in Glasgow, was actually a disaster in security terms. The worst possible outcome. Certainly, a calamity.16 It would be very unfair to describe as ‘unsupported speculation’ the authors’ recent discoveries in the small Bavarian […]
[PDF file]: […] be true. But he appears to have incorporated bits and pieces from one of the more obscure pieces of assassination literature. Mackenzie’s tale includes the Defense Industrial Security Command, the American Council of Christian Churches (ACCC) and Permindex – organisations which featured in the so-called Torbitt Memorandum in the early 1970s, which no researchers […]
[PDF file]: […] game – the Brits were only interested in a small minority. Mass espionage, which is what the Iraqis were playing at, is designed to create fear. Protection Security became the norm. My Baghdad-born father was an agent with the SIS and my family was lucky in that when I was a schoolgirl and we […]
[PDF file]: […] Terrorists on September 14 2001 was Democratic Representative Barbara Lee from California: see . 2 tension to push a frightened public deeper into the arms of the security state at home and into wars abroad.3 The Bush administration was quick to blame al-Qaeda for the attack and then finger Iraq – portrayed as the […]
[PDF file]: […] British political system, is that real political power in the UK rests with the Prime Minister. When I became interested in the relationship between the intelligence and security services and the British political system in the late 1970s, it was believed on the Labour left that the intelligence and security services were allpowerful and […]
