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Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund
[PDF file]: […] proposed rule changes. I am sure this exercise will have involved at some point party staff too, herding their constituency delegates in the right direction and sharing intelligence on the recalcitrant. Largely because of the lukewarm response from the trade unions, McSweeney didn’t get everything that he asked for, but the changes that were […]
South of the border
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Spook joke department ‘UK spies will need artificial intelligence’ reads the headline to a Gordon Corera piece on BBC news online.1 Yes, the gags are pretty much writing themselves now. Deferred prosecution agreements – buying your way out of trouble ‘A deferred prosecution agreement, or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds
[PDF file]: […] was not so tragic, and as I read and reread the The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report I was struck by one of the key items contained in the Intelligence and Security Committee’s central questionnaire, which was never answered. It was to be found in point three out of a total of five principal issues to […]