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‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963
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[PDF file]: […] by Russian submarines. The function of the on-shore Ireland was represented in the talks by Joseph Walshe (Secretary of External Affairs) and Colonel Lionel Archer (Irish Military Intelligence) and the UK by Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke. 25 See a report setting out Ireland’s assistance to the UK, by Viscount Cranborne, Secretary of State for […]
Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
[PDF file]: […] another’. But, like the TV shows, the end product is easy to digest and, in this case, does provide some information on the operation of the German intelligence network in America in the late 30s and early 40s when the US was neutral, and may have stayed so had the Japanese not attacked Pearl […]
Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement
[PDF file]: […] took his complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, to hear complaints relating to conduct by the intelligence and security agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It is also the only appropriate Tribunal for the purpose of certain proceedings under s7(1)(a) of the Human Rights […]
Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] an initial print run of 150. Its early credibility received a big boost in 1987 when Peter Wright’s Spycatcher was published and confirmed that elements within British Intelligence had been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a […]
The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency
[PDF file]: […] them’. And then there is his relationship with Vladimir Putin, a relationship that is ‘so obsequious that former CIA director John Brennan and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that Trump might have been compromised by the Kremlin’ (p. 145). As he points out in his discussion of the ‘Collusion’ issue, the […]
Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas by Joan Mellen
[PDF file]: […] Available on her website at . 2 The report of the expert is reproduced in the book but meant little to an untrained eye like mine. 3 Intelligence when he was apparently given a managerial job in a Texas-based aerospace company. There are, however, significant questions which remain unanswered. LBJ’s lawyer, John Cofer, worked […]
Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies by Morag G. Kerr
[PDF file]: […] the plane? – and the British were reluctant to to investigate Heathrow, 1 This book arrived the day that Exaro published material showing (again) that the US intelligence people didn’t believe the Libya-dunnit story. See . so both fell with enthusiasm on the Malta solution; and, she concedes, both sets of investigators genuinely believed […]
The Two Goulds
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Reporting on Hitler: Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany by Will Wainewright
[PDF file]: […] trying to modernise the country. He left Russia in 1912, working briefly in Berlin for The Standard. During the First World War he worked for British Military Intelligence, MI7 (along with A A Milne!) and he eventually ended up in Berlin working for the Daily Mail. In October 1923 he had the dubious honour […]