[…] Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their 10 11 12 See for example . Boss isn’t West Wing but it is pretty good. intelligence services for about 15 years.1 3 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers1 4 and I was struck by how little it interested me. […]
[PDF file]: […] Islamic terrorist attacks in London. See my ‘MI5 speaks to the nation!’ in Lobster 79 at . 2 See, for instance, ‘The supposed superiority of the UK intelligence agencies is a myth’ by Mary Dejevsky for the Guardian in 2016 at or . 3 1 that he has been heavily promoting.4 This new creation […]
[PDF file]: […] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.26 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Conservative Attorney General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war […]
