[PDF file]: […] the author of The Assault on Intelligence, was an Air Force General, who went on to become Director of National Intelligence (1999-2005) and then Director of the CIA (2006-2009). Even more than the previous two volumes under review, Hayden brings to the fore that so repugnant is the character of Donald Trump, and so […]
[PDF file]: […] of the computer where it had been hiding, leaving behind no evidence that it had ever been activated. The data-mining operation involved the National Security Agency, the CIA and Israel’s military.2 One would be hard put to slide a cigarette paper between the above malware description and Pegasus’s capabilities, except perhaps for the final […]
[PDF file]: […] Paul Wolfowitz, who was probably the biggest war hawk at the Pentagon. This circle ran a special intelligence unit that undermined the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the CIA, and the State Department’s efforts to find links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, and to confirm that Iraq had WMD. There was always a question as to […]
[PDF file]: […] which he puts bits and pieces of film and research. Well worth a look.19 * Richard Cummings, who wrote in Lobster about The Paris Review and the CIA, now has a blog.20 His essay there on the actions of the Republicans in America, ‘The Prosperity of Treason’, concludes thus: ‘All of these actions by […]
[PDF file]: […] time of this article appearing he had not responded. I have therefore been unable to discuss Mr Rocco-Rusk’s claims with him, in particular his relationship with the CIA, with whom he claims to have served (for an unspecified period) as a political analyst.1 2 Given the old adage that ‘One does not quit the […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Well, how did we get here? Robin Ramsay Introduction T hat I do this was suggested by Dan Hind and he made a number of useful comments on this text, some additions to it and suggested the title. Essentially I took parts of my 1999 Prawn Cocktail Party, pruned them and topped […]
[PDF file]: […] observes, ‘the level of British involvement remains highly classified’ (p. 182). However, he is of the opinion that there was KMS involvement as early as 1982. The CIA were very grateful for British support. The head of its Afghan Task Force not only acknowledged Thatcher as being ‘to the right of Atila the Hun’, […]
[PDF file]: […] British Youth Council.53 The British Youth Council began as the British section of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), which was set up and financed by the CIA and SIS in the early 1950s to combat the Soviet Union’s youth fronts.54 By Mandelson’s time in the mid-1970s – under a Labour government – the […]
[PDF file]: […] memoirs. Although unsentimental, The Hotel Tacloban is saturated with unstated but real empathy for the person whose story is recorded. This empathy was so powerful that former CIA director William Colby, who had read the book, hoped Valentine Jr. would bring that empathy to his book about the soldiers in Phoenix, and granted him […]
[…] is always right, well intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. ‘Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.’ If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state running joint […]
