[…] Oswald would not have been any sensible person’s choice for a co-conspirator. He was a ‘loner’, mixed-up, of questionable reliability and an unknown quantity to any professional intelligence service. As to charges that the Commission’s report was a rush job, it emerged three months after the deadline originally set. But to the degree that […]
[PDF file]: […] and the following week; Guardian 16 July 1976; Searchlight nos. 18 and 21. 7. Private Eye speculated that the documents had been leaked by “moderates” inside British intelligence, alarmed at the activities of some of the “wild men”. This view, attractive though it is, has no evidence to support it. 8. Best collection of […]
[PDF file]: […] passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, that operate on the fringes of state intelligence and security systems. Except in details, I have not attempted to update the essay, whose general thesis has been unfortunately only too corroborated by ensuing events. […]
[PDF file]: […] to ‘misrepresent to each party the critical elements of the other, ensuring the war and its subsequent Arab oil embargo’. Engdahl also accused Kissinger of suppressing vital intelligence on the Arab build-up for the war.10 But Kissinger was merely following the Bilderberg plan allegedly devised months earlier in Sweden: ‘The war and its aftermath, […]
[PDF file]: […] He discusses these differences on pp. 84-5. Godson’s obituary was in The Times, 6 September 1986. 41 Godson’s son, Roy, who appears on the same trade union/ intelligence circuit in the 1970s, married Sam Watson’s daughter. Watson was one of the most important trade union leaders in the post-war period, chairman of the National […]
[PDF file]: […] revisions. This is something Morley would not do. Thomas Powers actually met James Angleton and recalls the conversation they had as a basic Angleton tutorial on counter- intelligence (CI) techniques. They talked about the collection of ‘serials’ on subjects and the opening of chronologies on people and events, along with two basic rules of […]
[PDF file]: […] in North Korea.’ Interview in Korea: The Unknown War, Thames Television (UK) 1988. 25 David Dean Rusk (1909-1994) was a Rhodes scholar and became a US Army intelligence officer during WWII; later Deputy Under Secretary of State and then Assistant Secretary of State for Far East Affairs, and finally Secretary of State to Presidents […]
[PDF file]: […] to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its […]
[PDF file]: […] he managed to penetrate the CIA-Air Force U2 program run out of a highly restricted area in the huge Atsugi base on behalf of the Soviet Union’s intelligence services; that as an air-traffic controller, Oswald tracked U-2 flights out of Atsugi and learned just how high the U-2 flew. With this information, the Soviets […]
[PDF file]: […] sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex- intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered to watch the Kincora care home in Belfast in the 1970s because one of its housemasters, William McGrath, was the leader […]
