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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
[PDF file]: […] coup to seize power for himself. He ‘did little to hide his involvement in drug trafficking’ and, according to an interview with Col. Russell Thaden, the NATO intelligence chief, on one occasion he ‘blew his stack upon learning U.S. and British forces had jointly bombed a large drug lab in northern Afghanistan’. He calmed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
LBJ: doubles and disinformation
[PDF file]: […] disinformation concerning the Kennedy assassination, for whatever reason. As Mr Rocco-Rusk himself put it (on FaceBook in December 2013): ‘Honesty is not the job of the Central Intelligence Agency. Protecting our lives and serving our foreign policy is.’ On the other hand, Mr Rocco-Rusk’s previous CIA affiliations may be totally unrelated and he may […]
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, […]
Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux
[PDF file]: […] CNN report is permanently available at . 12 For what it’s worth, there are intriguing hints that Ms Kutyakova may have come into contact with local US intelligence officers before the Russian invasion. On 20 January 2022, she presented a video made by known CIA front USAID, promoting entrepreneurialism among Eastern Ukrainians. See (video […]
Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network
[PDF file]: […] judge from Northern Ireland, Brian Hutton. The inquiry was supposed to investigate the death of David Kelly, a government scientist who leaked details about the falsification of intelligence relating to Iraqi WMD, but whose death ended up being used instead as a vehicle for the Blair government to attack the BBC, who had reported […]