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View from Bridge copo
[…] chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counterintelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the declassified Webster documents are significant because they illuminate the unusual handling of Oswald the defector.3 […]
Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine
[…] Great Game: Why Ukraine Matters To So Many Other Nations’, Bloomberg, 27 February 2014 at or . 27 28 Sakwa, (see note 3) p. 215. See Wikileaks, cable to Washington from US Ambassador to Moscow, William J. Burns, 1 March 2008, ‘Russia-Ukraine Relations: Yuschenko and Tymoschenko in Moscow’, at . 29 13 the energy […]
The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn
[PDF file]: […] a carpet in the deputy Labour leader’s house matched a carpet in the town hall.’19 Oyston had multiple business interests: from his property empire, through radio and cable television stations, to a modelling agency. It was the last of these that would be most directly used in his orchestrated downfall. Model Team, as it […]
‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right
[PDF file]: […] to mark the occasion. A number of Republican Senators were invited. As the then British Ambassador to Washington DC, Kim Darroch, somewhat wryly observed: ‘Two of the cable news channels presented the event on a split screen: on one side, live coverage of the speeches marking the official opening; on the other the riots […]
Suddenly in September?
[PDF file]: […] alleged anti-semitism.68 In a previous life Smeeth worked for BICOM, the Londonbased Israel lobby organisation, and was named as a ‘strictly protect’ source in a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.69 Both Aaronovitch and Smeeth have been frequent contributors to the Jewish Chronicle, a paper repeatedly found breaking defamation laws and publishing codes as […]
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
[PDF file]: […] . . . . corruption soon became a defining feature of the government’. As early as September 2005, Ronald Neumann, the then U.S. Ambassador, sent a classified cable to Washington, warning of a ‘corruption crisis’ that was ‘a major threat to the country’s future’. He wanted President Hamid Karzai to remove some of the […]
A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’
[PDF file]: […] Schroder’s and Lazard’s. In the second were executives from some of the nation’s most powerful corporations such ICI, Shell-Mex, the AngloIranian Oil Company (now known as BP), Cable and Wireless, and AEI (Associated Electrical Industries, then one of Britain’s major industrial groups). This coalition of forces, formed at the junction where the interests of […]
The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop
[PDF file]: […] cooperation we now enjoy.’17 Italy’s political parties unanimously condemned Clare’s words as US interference in their country’s domestic affairs. The Washington Post called the remarks ‘an inexpli cable breach of diplomatic propriety’, and said that they would damage the prospect of a US-friendly Italian government being formed. Less attention was paid to the fact […]