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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.71 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.61 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.61 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the media) and the entrapment of Bradley Manning that previously involved the private intelligence agency Project Vigilant, based in Florida.7 Founded by Chet Uber, together with former NSA officials and a former head of security at the New York Stock Exchange, Project Vigilant hires computer hackers to target dissidents in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] it? But what precisely is being denied here? No MI5 people were involved in the surveillance of Wilson. OK, surveillance is not MI5’s job: electronically GCHQ or NSA would do that (almost certainly the latter). And no MI5 people had been involved in ‘any attempt to destabilise the government’. But burglary, leaking official material, […]

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