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In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the s tory of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which […]
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Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world
[PDF file]: […] and Nepalese.36 The last of the UK PMCs on that US Baghdad embassy list is Control Risks Group. I will not go into detail regarding the his tory of Control Risks here but simply refer the reader to the extensive detail on pages 6 and following of my previous article on PMCs.3 7 Further […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed Deighton, who isn’t even an elected politician, as commercial […]
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[…] in a collection of his essays, Unbecoming American: A War Memoir, available from Amazon.1 About the collection he writes: The context of these essays, the cultural his tory of the United States, is also one of a country that has been at war for most of its history. This is a war memoir, but […]
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The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
[PDF file]: […] Second Battle of Alamein. Despite German Jewish origins, he served post-war in the British army campaign against Jewish insurgents in Palestine, 1945– 1948. Olivia Frank’s life s tory, variously published as Naked Spy Girl, The Mossad Spy, Thatcher’s Prisoner, and currently available from Amazon as The Third Direction,1 describes how she was prescribed oestrogen […]