The Atlantic Semantic

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[PDF file]: […] the ‘private armies’ of the mid-1970s. These were largely psychological operations to bolster the public perception of a climate of disorganization and impending 1 Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941-91, (London: Harper Collins, 1993) p. 147. 2 Brian Crozier, ‘Crozier Disclosures,’ The Times, 8 July 1993. chaos along the lines indicated by […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

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[PDF file]: […] supply Saddam Hussein. These agents include the late Stephan Adolphus Kock, a former officer in the Rhodesian Special Air Service, consultant to the Midland Bank and putative agent of both MI5 and Mi6; and Sir John Cuckney, a former MI5 officer. Both died in 2008. The document also describes the actions taken by HMG […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] the most important of these Russian agents was Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, who had been ‘identified as a paid Soviet agent since the mid-1930s’. (p. 40) For some reason, Bower lets Michael Foot, or agent ‘Boot’ as he was known to Daily Mail readers, off the hook. […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

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[PDF file]: […] a favorable antitrust ruling 17 Liddy (see note 16) pp. 320-321. Liddy (see note 16), pp. 324-5; cf. E. Howard Hunt, Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent (London: W. H. Allen, 1975) p. 232. Liddy recounts some of this on video at . 18 19 Nixon, Memoirs (see note 5) p. 677. 7 […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

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[PDF file]: […] JFK assassination. However, the FBI’s file on the entire Crisman-Maury Island affair contains a detailed report dated 24 August 1947 by Guy Banister, the Bureau’s SAC (Special Agent in Charge) in Butte, Montana. This is the same Guy Banister who would later turn up in close proximity to Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans.16 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the name of his secret agent 007, Shakespeare and others have thrown out dozens of names of real secret agents who they say were the model for 007. Shakespeare even comes up […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] admitted at the beginning of the inquiry – but impressive nonetheless. The list reminded me of a number of things. There was the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the […]

The World That Never Was by Alex Butterworth

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[PDF file]: […] Rachkovsky, in particular being central to this tale, with infiltration of revolutionary groups; his recruiting of revolutionaries and turning them into informers; the use of his star agent Abraham Hekkelman (aka Landesen, Arkady Harting) to foment violent acts as a pretext for state repression and manipulation of interstate relationships; not to forget his use […]

[PDF file]: […] Rachkovsky, in particular being central to this tale, with infiltration of revolutionary groups; his recruiting of revolutionaries and turning them into informers; the use of his star agent Abraham Hekkelman (aka Landesen, Arkady Harting) to foment violent acts as a pretext for state repression and manipulation of interstate relationships; not to forget his use […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

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[PDF file]: […] again in relation to ‘AQIM’. Abu Qatada was a recruiter for both the EIJ and the Algerian Islamic Group (GIA), and editor of the GIA’s newsletter. MI5 agent Reda Hassaine said: ‘I saw Qatada brainwash young Muslims, living in Britain from Africa, Somalia, 38 MoD, see note 22, p. 16. Center for Strategic and […]

007’s real mission continues

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[PDF file]: […] William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the name of his secret agent 007, Shakespeare and others have thrown out dozens of names of real secret agents who they say were the model for 007. Shakespeare even comes up […]

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