[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]
[PDF file]: […] Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) loved intrigue. Even into her late 70s she still read voraciously about America’s foreign and domestic policies, and regularly entertained former CIA counter- intelligence chief James Angleton, for what the two called ‘Spy chat’.1 A dedicated anti-communist and dyed-in-the-wool Republican, she had served as a Representative for Connecticut between 1943 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] to gain access to vulnerable children.’11 I think the British state’s plan is to keep kicking Kincora into the long grass until all the witnesses from the intelligence world are dead. Grauniadia Off-guardian.org, the site which monitors the Guardian, has a splendid piece on the Guardian’s initial handling of the Panama offshore accounts story, […]
[PDF file]: […] former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama programme 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 […]
[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]
[PDF file]: Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR Corinne Souza SIS lifestyle management services A ll intelligence organisations can provide expertise and insider knowledge of a personal nature to staff, agents and favoured others. This may range from the mundane: home repairs carried out by vetted suppliers, say, to the more glitzy, […]
[PDF file]: […] organisation capable of tackling modern-day threats dies aged 63’. It included this line: ‘A lifelong Labour supporter and former Young Socialist, Ritchie saw no contradiction between his intelligence work and his egalitarian ideals.’2 A pinko spook? We have come a long way in the lifetime of this journal! *new* All our yesterdays I have […]
[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 […]
