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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid
[PDF file]: […] from the leaking of US National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools which fell into the wrong hands – known as the ‘Shadow Brokers’ – in 2016. US intelligence sources thought there was North Korean as well as Russian involvement with what happened to the leaked tools which, when used by the miscreants, caused global […]
Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin
[PDF file]: […] that Lehane names. Lehane was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to go and study in the USA and discovered that the Harkness scheme is a front for an intelligence recruitment operation. Bright young things (though not so young in Lehane’s case) go the States where the CIA can give them a look over and recruit […]
The Secret War Between the Wars MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s by Kevin Quinlan
[PDF file]: […] handling of the very significant Tyler Kent/Right Club events which might have had a serious impact on WW2, delaying American entry; and the careful debriefing of Soviet intelligence defector Krivitsky, the first of its kind. Versions of these events, based on the same files, are in Christopher Andrew’s Defence of the Realm and had […]
Inside the AARB, Volume IV by Douglas P. Horne
[PDF file]: […] is still the minority one, diametrically opposed to that of the 1 Inside the AARB, Volume IV What seems incontestable is Horne’s finding that the National Photo Intelligence Center in Washington received the Zapruder film from a CIA lab at Kodak in Rochester, and that the anonymous ‘Bill Smith’ who delivered it said it […]
The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold Story by James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire
[PDF file]: […] the hacking trials themselves. We learn that Mulcaire’s early career was as a ‘tracer’ for John Boyall who, among other things, carried out contract work for the intelligence services. When the NOTW and Boyall fell out, Mulcaire was the beneficiary and became ever more deeply involved with obtaining material by assorted means in support […]
British Counterinsurgency by John Newsinger
[PDF file]: […] that disastrous campaign, we heard a fair bit of comment that the Americans should have listened to the Brits because the British state – its military and intelligence – is good at counterinsurgency.2 Newsinger’s account of British CI campaigns since 1945 shows that this is a delusion. With the exception of a couple of […]
Blair and Israel
[PDF file]: […] Israeli drones to President Buhari of Nigeria.6 One of the companies Barak was involved with was the data company Carbyne, ‘founded by former members of Israeli military intelligence’, which was seen as useful during the Covid pandemic for its ability to locate individual patients. ‘It was backed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, […]
The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford
[PDF file]: […] a movie and fucked the writer. Would a script get you killed? Alford’s earlier book about Hollywood describes an entertainment industry in which the US military and intelligence are thoroughly integrated, a system in which a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word […]
Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne
[PDF file]: ‘Damn you Keir Starmer’ Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza Peter Oborne London: OR Books, 2025, £11.99, p/b John Newsinger This is a tremendously powerful book, written with both a determined forensic intensity and a sometimes barely controlled outrage. Oborne, one feels, sometimes just cannot believe what is going on, the enormity of […]