[PDF file]: […] JSOC had no time for any hearts and minds nonsense. It hunted down and captured or killed its targets, with those captured being interrogated to provide the intelligence for the next raid. JSOC operated its own prison in Iraq at Camp NAMA. According to Scahill, the CIA which ‘had inflicted more than its share […]
[…] of them suggested giving Detective Caskey ‘false files’. He noted that ‘successive Police Ombudsmen reports have revealed such practices as ranging from the “slow waltz” of withholding intelligence from detectives or conducting sham interviews, or other efforts to disapply the rule of law to agents of the state. The obstruction of investigations through the […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] a portrait of Oswald which could have been written in 1964; in which, like the version in Legend, all the evidence of Oswald’s links to the American intelligence services is omitted.4 And in Legend, after spending hundreds of thousands of Reader’s Digest dollars on researchers in an attempt to show that Oswald was a […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] in Washington DC. The missing DIS documents comprised a standard background check performed on Wallace, who was applying for a job with a defence contractor, which two intelligence officers told The News had been present in his file in 1961 but were apparently removed later. The file also contains a letter to the FBI […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Men Who Stole the World, 5 he has this towards the end of the prologue: ‘Offshore connects the criminal underworld with the financial elite, the diplomatic and intelligence establishments with multinational corporations. Offshore drives conflict, shapes our perceptions, creates financial instability and delivers staggering rewards to les grands — to the people who matter. […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the Church and Pike Committees had never met. Even Mr Panetta, who is commonly depicted as a new broom at Langley, has been part of the so-called intelligence community for more than thirty years. ‘Witches’ and ‘miracles’ There is a very strong cognitive – I would say religious and dogmatic – construct shared throughout […]
