Spookaroonie!

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[…] really review them. However, there are some things I can say about them. I’m not quite sure why but I have never taken Gordon Thomas’s books on espionage and parapolitics seriously. Partly, it is just that he writes a lot, and I don’t trust people who are prolific in these fields because this material […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

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[PDF file]: […] in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved in the Italian and German espionage efforts in London and provided reports on these to MI5 – though their accuracy and value were disputed. In 1936 Bannigan gave a garble account to […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] investigates their leaderships, enabling structures, and activities for meaningful links to or behaviours consistent with: malign influence and finance; financial and organised crime; narrative or reputation laundering; espionage; or other indicators flagged in our methodology. And it seeks to empower the third sector through our flagship NGO Watchlist, special investigations, and informative opinion pieces. […]

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 […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

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[PDF file]: […] defence establishments throughout the country – Latimer House at Amersham, for example. The lectures were on a variety of subjects, including European history, ‘post-war’ economics, subversion, policing, espionage and counterespionage. These are the names of the lecturers Sanderson recalled when writing the first version of this in prison. (The italicised comments in brackets are […]

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 […]

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] The twelfth is the house of secrets and dreams. Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions and rules everything below the surface – deception, espionage, foreign things, prisons and religion. According to my astrologer friend Helen Poole, my leaving and returning during a Pisces moon, and traveling throughout the sun sign […]

Pisces Moon Valentine review text

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[…] The twelfth is the house of secrets and dreams. Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions and rules everything below the surface – deception, espionage, foreign things, prisons and religion. According to my astrologer friend Helen Poole, my leaving and returning during a Pisces moon, and traveling throughout the sun sign […]

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 […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

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[…] The twelfth is the house of secrets and dreams. Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions and rules everything below the surface – deception, espionage, foreign things, prisons and religion. According to my astrologer friend Helen Poole, my leaving and returning during a Pisces moon, and traveling throughout the sun sign […]

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