[…] infers it from the evidence of the two ‘Oswalds’. If this is true, Armstrong has uncovered the most elaborate intelligence operation (and done the greatest piece of espionage detective work) I have ever read about.(2) Into the CIA’s anti-Castro underground In Armstrong’s hypothesis, after Russian-speaking ‘Harvey’ defected, adopting Lee’s identity, Lee Oswald remained in […]
[…] activity in Britain has enjoyed a steady growth throughout the past two decades. The principal motivation for this rush of development is the US interest in commercial espionage. In the Fifties, during the development of the ‘special relationship’ between America and Britain, one US institution was singled out for special attention. The NSA, the […]
[…] are little bits of new information or perspectives, for example, on Will Owen, the Labour MP who was ripping-off the Czechs and got done (but acquitted) for espionage; the attempting framing of Peter Hain; agent provocateurs in the labour movement; the ‘Angry Brigade’; Searchlight magazine, and the role of state agents here, there and […]
[…] tightening (pretty generous) belts. Let’s hope the IRA, the animal rights movement, Green Anarchist and the anti-roads campaigners are suitably flattered to be the equivalent of the espionage services of a super-power! For all the welcome candour of some of his interviewees, there are still corns that Urban won’t tread on. The whole ‘Wilson […]
[…] run by the Technical Services Staff (TSS), which is also known as Technical Services Division (TSD). The main purpose of these programs was their potential use in espionage and covert operations. In 1973, tipped-off about forthcoming investigations, Richard Helms, then Director of Central Intelligence, ordered the destruction of any MKULTRA records. In 1976, in […]
[…] vehicle in selling/branding America/Britain to aspirational and/or new elites. New York shopping-tourism (a barometer of new elites, including cigar-smoking wealthy men/their mistresses, always useful background information for espionage) could also suffer. 2 With all its WTO business, Geneva is enjoying a renaissance and the spooks presumably are again running around all over the place. […]
[…] dollars into the exile groups. Frank Wisner, the director of the CIA’s Clandestine Operations Directorate and architect of the agency’s covert funding policy, ‘believed in the tremendous espionage potential of its Eastern European emigre organisations, their value as propagandists and agents of influence.’ (42) The CIA sponsored a front called the National Committee for […]
[…] Also link to Gulflink (see below). FBI http://www.fbi.gov/ Menu includes overview of the FBI, FAQs, and FBI investigations including the unabomber, Oklahoma City and DECA programme ( espionage, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism awareness) Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.lanl.gov/ Details of some of the extensive range of research work undertaken at LANL, eg nuclear weapons, computer […]
[…] at < http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/hermanmay 98.htm > . 49 This was ‘blow back’ on a grand scale. 50 See James Der Derian, ‘Anti-Diplomacy, Intelligence Theory and Surveillance Practice’ in Espionage Past, Present, Future? edited by Wesley K. Wark (London: Frank Cass, 1994) pp. 37-8. Der Derian is a post-modernist trying to apply his theories to this […]
[…] footsie with both the Americans and the Soviets, would have hardly have booted out a Soviet agent and risked jeopardizing Egyptian-Soviet relations. He also asserts that ‘the espionage reporters of all the great papers all now work hand in glove with the Security Service’.(p. 155) Names please, Mr West? As to West’s contention that […]
