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View from 93
[…] 1 He told the annual conference of the major American UFO organisation, MUFON, in 1989 that it had all been disinformation, cooked–up by parts of the military- intelligence agencies. It had been what Colin Wallace described years before as a double bubble operation: you lead people down a false trail and then destroy what […]
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 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 […]
Friends of Israel
[PDF file]: […] successor, Sir Keir Starmer. Not only does he have an employee of the Israel lobby, Luke Akehurst, on the party’s National Executive Committee, he has former Israeli intelligence officer, Assaf Kaplan, on his social media team.23 The subsequent expulsion from Labour of Jewish members who do not support Israel has been a regular but […]
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 Two Goulds
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 […]
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 […]
View from 93
[…] isn’t my field, as academics say, and doesn’t really interest me greatly. However a skim of the text shows it to be massively detailed. I can think of no other post-war intelligence op which has been so minutely analysed. If there is a reader who would like to review this, please get in touch. 5