As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending […]
[…] emerged in 1971 with the creation of Information Policy. In early 1972 the Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF) was created. Military chiefs wanted a unit to combine ‘ intelligence gathering’ with ‘aggressive patrolling’ within the Republican areas.(8) The SAS had been sent to Northern Ireland in 1969 (9), and by 1972, with the MRF, they […]
[…] to bring closure for the family.’(6) Unofficial histories and authorised versions Described by its publisher as ‘the definitive history of MI5 and MI6’, Gordon Thomas’s Inside British intelligence: 100 years of MI5 and MI6 (London: JR Books), hit the shelves in May, despite the best efforts of the government to block publication. Naming operatives […]
John Deutch, the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was a panel member on the Interagency Group on Human Radiation Experiments, which was created on January 15 1994, under President Clinton’s order, directing government agencies to look into unethical experiments conducted during the Cold War. John Deutch was also a panel members of […]
[…] justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being of British troops – has led to widespread public recognition of intelligence failure, without balanced apportionment of blame. This has served to obfuscate one of the real problems: over the years ‘intelligence’ has come to be defined by […]
[…] The material is far too numerous to be an example of public schoolboy jolly japes. Although no evidence has been produced which directly links Waugh to the Intelligence services, the circumstantial evidence is highly suggestive. He has written, “Perhaps I should explain that I tried to join the Foreign Service soon after coming down […]
It is a difficult time for Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Not only have the old certainties collapsed with the Berlin Wall, Britain’s economy is in increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 […]
[…] of weapons of mass destruction.’ (1) Even more off-message On 25 January 2004 The Glasgow Herald reported what were claimed to be the views of senior British intelligence figures in a ‘pre-emptive strike against Tony Blair ahead of the publication of the Hutton report’ (2) The Herald said this of MI6: ‘The key points […]
Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate Attempts by intelligence and law enforcement to control new technologies Intelligence/law enforcement concerns Intelligence and law enforcement agencies world-wide have in recent years become concerned that more widespread use of advanced technologies, such as encryption, digital technologies and the Internet, will compromise their ability to fight crime and […]
[…] into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators. Substantial evidence exists linking members of the American intelligence community — including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Intelligence — with the esoteric technology of mind […]
