Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see note 2), esp. pp. 116-121; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia. A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988 (London: Routledge, 1989), ch. 10; and Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: the Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: 4th […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] it possible that he was kept out of the loop? We simply don’t know. This one might run and run but these days, who knows? 52 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-cryptoencryption-machines- espionage/ 53 See, for example, or < https://www.quora.com/Where-didall-of-the-thousands-of-Enigma-machines-end-up-after-the-end-of-WW2> 54 Nick Must commented: It is mentioned, very briefly, in the ‘After the War’ section of the Enigma History […]

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[…] He lunged towards RFK firing his pistol. A little more Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 42 or 43 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 44 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

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[PDF file]: […] who needs political satire?’13 The sub-heading, ‘What synchronicity: a WikiLeaks dump, helpful to Trump, in the same week as a As given by Richard Bennett in his Espionage: Spies and Secrets (London: Virgin Books, 2002): ‘a FLOATER: A freelance agent used for a one-off or occasional intelligence operation. Usually a low-level operative such as […]

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[…] He lunged towards RFK firing his pistol. A little more Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 42 or 43 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 44 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]

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[…] Knew too Much . 32 See, for example, . 33 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 34 11 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move from Robert Kennedy […]

Peer group pressure

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[PDF file]: […] leave little to no trace. In essence, we do not exist before, during or after the event.’23 As two words simply say on their home page: Counter Espionage. Their corporate logo looks remarkably similar to Parliament’s portcullis, which may be considered unfortunate these days. Mackenzie would have been just another Labour peer lurking around […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] was not exactly where the political Did we need the 22 pages the author devotes to Hunt’s biography? In it we learn a great deal about Hunt’s espionage novels and the fact that Hunt took the job with the White House because he needed to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term […]

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[…] Knew too Much . 19 See, for example, . 20 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 21 or 22 23 7 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

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[PDF file]: […] evangelist Pat Robertson’s Regent University. What the USA has ended up with is a President ‘beholden to Russia’. Frum describes Trump’s election as ‘the most successful foreign espionage attempt against the United States in the nation’s history’ (p. 134). His ‘deference to Putin reverberated through the western alliance’ (p. 155) and more generally, he […]

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