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Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] believing that he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam after his capture.39 The Daily Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that […]

The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

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[PDF file]: […] open ballot-rigging, with Texas leading the way. This is unlikely to be enough and the regime is getting ready to unleash targeted repression against its enemies. The FBI raids on John Bolton’s home and office are a clear warning to his enemies that he is coming for them. Not only has ICE been dramatically […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] texts, maybe. unit established in the White House ostensibly to investigate and prevent leaks of information: anything goes. There was a pool of ex-CIA, ex-military and ex- FBI people in Washington looking to supplement their pensions. The Nixon team didn’t know much about this world and picked people on the say-so of others. Thus […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

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[PDF file]: […] maybe. 1 unit established in the White House ostensibly to investigate and prevent leaks of information: anything goes. There was a pool of ex-CIA, ex-military and ex- FBI people in Washington looking to supplement their pensions. The Nixon team didn’t know much about this world and picked people on the say-so of others. Thus […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] been reduced to a tiny rump. Why they did not do so is not known. My guess would be that they were told not to by the FBI, which was letting Soviet money into the CPUSA. In the early 1970s, what we might call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] with Surikov at the Hotel Bristol in Vienna Petrov ‘04 and I think of Indira Singh who lost her job at J.P. Morgan after she notified the FBI about Ptech the hi-tech Islamist firm bankrolled by Yasin al-Qadi, a wealthy Saudi investor who has been officially designated as a terrorism financier with contracts at […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of the project’s founders, seems to grasp the connection between the behaviour of states and conspiracy theories. In a piece on the 26 27 In ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call’. There is no mention of the call in Jefferson Morley’s recent biography of James Angleton, The Ghost: The Secret Life of […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents) . . . they are described as working for Bishop Reporting (sic). From memory I think the Office of Security had clipped this piece from […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI This site also carries substantial recent essays on the British Army’s Frank Kitson (who died recently) and Kincora. 38 This is discussed at or . 39 […]