[…] neglected provenance in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. The crippling of the 455-foot USS Liberty, a SIGINT intelligence vessel run jointly by the US navy and the NSA, in a sustained two hour attack by Israeli bombers and torpedo craft at the height of the 1967 Middle East war, is still regarded as a […]
[…] stationed in the host country, and the Commanding General of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command; and where electronic surveillance is required, the co-operation of the NSA. I am assured that similar regulations are in place for the US Air Force and Navy. (What the CIA and NSA does in these areas seems […]
[…] a conversation he had with the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) — in 1953. The director asked Lilly to brief the CIA, FBI, NSA and the various military intelligence services on his work using electrodes to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centres of the brain. Lilly refused, noting in […]
[…] Ball, D. The Ties That Bind, Allen and Unwin, London 1985, p178). Even sophisticated overhead intelligence platforms like Rhyolite have their limitations, principally those of payload. The NSA were also monitoring the TELINT associated with missile launches from Krasnoyarsk from their station in northern Iran, only a couple of hundred miles away (Bamford p198). […]
Thinking about the Falklands Paul Johnson recently sneered in The Times at the ‘conspiracy theories’ about the Falklands War held by the likes of Tam Dalyell MP. Reading this, what struck me was just how few conspiracy theories about that war have emerged in the past 3 years. So, here are a couple. Mine is […]
[…] this government (and the media) respond to the forthcoming John Schlesinger film of The Falcon and the Snowman (US 1979) by Robert Lindsey, in which the great NSA, whose secrets were supposedly at risk through contact with GCHQ, is portrayed as a ramshackle, drug-ridden shambles, with bored servicemen and civilian employees passing away the […]
[…] the pool; and we got more than enough mud already.(2) Knightsbridge news Mohamed Al-Fayed’s law suit – all 40 pages of it – against the CIA, DIA, NSA et al for denying him documents under the Freedom of Information Act which he believes they possess was posted on the Net on 1 September 2000.(3) […]
[…] 1971) Guy Richards calls Corso “one of the most remarkable men in Washington.” Corso, he writes, “has made personal friends in the CIA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency, NSA, Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps whose loyalty to him transcends bureaucratic boundaries whenever they believe the interests of the country are at stake.” (Imperial […]
[…] attempted to get sight of these under the terms of the United States Freedom of Information Act. The Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency ( NSA) have confirmed that they hold 39 documents consisting of 1,056 pages of information relating to Diana and Dodi but they refuse to reveal it on the […]
Peddlars Of Crisis Jerry W. Sanders (Pluto, London 1983) With this book research into clandestinism and Cold War revisionism take another big step towards meeting. It is the story of the Committee on the Present Danger, the Cold War think-tank that prepared the way for the election of Reagan and provided the administration with Jeanne […]
