The View from the Bridge

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[…] did by e-mail a couple of years ago with The Occupied Times which I had forgotten about.8 In it I noticed this comment: ‘And GCHQ and the NSA are recording and analysing every form of electronic emission from baby monitors upwards.’ Which is to say: thank you Mr Snowden for shoving the details into […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] certain Eastern Europeans e.g. Rudi Sternberg. (89) 4. Anxieties about possible Labour policies towards Rhodesia and South Africa. 5. Fears that Labour would alienate the CIA and NSA upon whom the British intelligence services depended for much of their technical expertise and some finance. 28 Thanks to Pincher, we have most of this from […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Woodworth, 9/11 Unmasked: An international review panel investigation (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2018) ISBN-13:978-1-62371-974-6 43 John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the crimes of the war on terror (Hot Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5107-2136-4 44 9 range of senior US intelligence and law enforcement officials whose experience […]

Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Mitchell and – as revealed in Lobster 77 – Bobby Ray Inman, then a Vice Admiral. Inman was later appointed director of the National Security Agency ( NSA) by President Carter himself. Approached for comment on this story, Jimmy Carter initially dodged the issue with an irrelevant response. He subsequently declined to comment when […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] recently there was no (public) evidence showing Russian, let alone Russian state involvement.125 The closest we have got to evidence is a piece at The Intercept, ‘Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election’ and a report in the Washington Post recounting the Obama administration’s response to receiving a CIA report […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] recently there was no (public) evidence showing Russian, let alone Russian state involvement.125 The closest we have got to evidence is a piece at The Intercept, ‘Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election’ and a report in the Washington Post recounting the Obama administration’s response to receiving a CIA report […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] It was a leak not a hack.6 Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has been saying a similar thing. McGovern’s had several conversations with senior people at the NSA. They assured him that, had the Russians been responsible for any such a hack the NSA would have detected it; but, as they didn’t detect anything, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. . . .’ These are the Operation Northwoods documents which were included in James Bamford’s book Body of Secrets on the NSA a couple of years later and have become a staple of the parapolitical canon. Curious that such a startling revelation had to wait until 9/11 to […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it. It could refer to the indiscriminate trawling of private communications which is at the root of the current controversy over Edward Snowden’s revelations, with the American NSA and Britain’s GCHQ now notoriously in cahoots. It could also cover the question of accountability, and the fact that none of us was told – and […]

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