[…] but it has been co-opted by NATO.1 It may still do interesting work but I now wouldn’t trust it any more than I would any other NATO/American intelligence operation. It has substantial funding, employs numerous staff, the behaviour of some of whom is becoming that of any other psy-war outfit. Bellingcat staffer Christopher Grozev2 […]
[PDF file]: […] from the general public. For the record, I do not believe any such thing. It has been amply demonstrated that stories about UFOs and extraterrestrials serve various intelligence bodies as a useful way of discrediting people or other organisations. It is this discrediting tactic that is the focus of the present work. 1: Flights […]
[…] found his temperament suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of […]
[PDF file]: […] even China – comes close to challenging the United States in power and influence. The US’s strength lies in its power to bribe, the breadth of its intelligence agencies, its sophisticated public relations operations, and especially its military might. Consequently, it is the ambition of US businesses, using the military as a vehicle, to […]
[PDF file]: […] is pretty good. 12 6 truth: Spooks, now and then Cryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their intelligence services for about 15 years.14 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers15 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 […]
[PDF file]: […] information about James Angleton, James McCord (one of the early Olson investigators and later a Watergate burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr […]
[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]
[…] former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, Gordon Winter said: : ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man […]
[PDF file]: […] for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) were instigated. One figure who played a part in the preparations for what would become the ‘Gladio’ networks was British military intelligence officer (and future Conservative MP) officer Airey Neave. From late May of 1942, Neave was an officer in the ‘escape and evasion’ department MI9 and engaged […]
[PDF file]: […] it is still possible to navigate through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers […]
