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To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’
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[…] narratives are found wanting and counter-narratives (of varying plausibility) abound: from the suspicious deaths of government weapons experts, cryptographers and shadowy financiers to the covered-up connections between intelligence agencies and terror groups (see Curtis 2010). Criminologists should shrug off the stigma attached to theorizing that diverges from official accounts and carefully excavate the deep […]
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
[PDF file]: […] The so-called ‘colour revolutions’ in the former Soviet satellites are presented as unproblematic with no hint of covert US influence conveyed. The political weight of the military-industrial- intelligence complex in US domestic politics is not mentioned. But these are relatively minor details in the broad sweep of his narrative. In the end, after the […]
Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball
[PDF file]: […] had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the alarms triggered by the Able Archer exercise, which a lone Russian intelligence officer decided to ignore.1 Often these nuclear threats and alerts have been described as essential to US credibility. That magic word was also used in 2008, […]
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[…] narratives are found wanting and counter-narratives (of varying plausibility) abound: from the suspicious deaths of government weapons experts, cryptographers and shadowy financiers to the covered-up connections between intelligence agencies and terror groups (see Curtis 2010). Criminologists should shrug off the stigma attached to theorizing that diverges from official accounts and carefully excavate the deep […]
Holding Pattern
[PDF file]: […] later I received a reply (on 1 See . plain A4 paper, signed with a wiggly line with no name beneath it) informing me that the Secret Intelligence Service has not disposed of human remains in the last 15 years. Encouraged, I wrote again, this time asking for the release of the Service’s internal […]
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 […]
The two Goulds
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 […]