[…] out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value of their work.’ Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague the former head of the KGB Leonid Sherbarschin; former head of East […]
[…] out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value of their work.’ Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague the former head of the KGB Leonid Sherbarschin; former head of East […]
[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]
[PDF file]: […] in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed blackmailing the Agency by warning that the FBI probe could 3 For an early argument along these lines, […]
[…] in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent of Kenneth de Courcy.8 Like du Berrier, de Courcy had some interesting early experiences in politics/ intelligence and parlayed this into a subscription-based newsletter which purported to show the world as it really How far we have come: Bilderberg was once secret and […]
[…] the Russia-Ukraine conflict. They have been widely praised, not least in these columns.4 Klarenberg wrote: In a March 2022 email entitled “Russians in our Universities,” British military intelligence officer and former senior NATO advisor Chris Donnelly accused Sakwa of being a Russian “fellow traveller” who’d been “gradually breaking cover,” insisting the professor was “far […]
[…] be copied. * In the opening paragraph the author – purportedly a CIA officer of some stripe, writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. […]
[…] the following people/groups Julius Draznin: Giancana and the Chicago Mob Walter Sheridan: Carlos Marcello and New Orleans Mob Pat Moynihan: Jimmy Hoffa and the Secret Service French Intelligence: HL Hunt and the rightwing’ Who’s not on that list? The most obvious candidate of all, the man who benefited most from the assassination, vice president […]
[PDF file]: […] the following people/groups Julius Draznin: Giancana and the Chicago Mob Walter Sheridan: Carlos Marcello and New Orleans Mob Pat Moynihan: Jimmy Hoffa and the Secret Service French Intelligence: HL Hunt and the rightwing’ Who’s not on that list? The most obvious candidate of all, the man who benefited most from the assassination, vice president […]
[PDF file]: […] the Bridge * In the opening paragraph the author – purportedly a CIA officer of some stripe, writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. […]
