[…] 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 S omewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas […]
[PDF file]: […] sister of Max (a council member of Brian Crozier’s ISC and also with the Committee for the Free World). During WW2 Nora Beloff had worked for Political Intelligence at the Foreign Office, and her attacks on the extreme left of the Labour Party had the backing of David Astor.4 Michael Crick drew on Beloff, […]
[…] Leeden Michael Ledeen’s death in May this year produced a flurry of articles about him. Not discussed, in those I read, was Ledeen’s possible relationship with Israeli intelligence. Which is odd, really, for Israel’s interests run through his career as an interface between US state and non-state officials and Israel. Google AI gave me […]
[…] Leeden Michael Ledeen’s death in May this year produced a flurry of articles about him. Not discussed in those I read was Ledeen’s possible relationship with Israeli intelligence. Which is odd, really, for Israel’s interests run through his career as an interface between US state and non-state officials and Israel. Google AI gave me […]
[…] election.10 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims on the grounds they had a history of lying and they had failed to provide any evidence. The second line of attack was to […]
[PDF file]: […] by Ian Fleming, foreign manager of Kemsley Newspapers between 1945 and 1959. Suspicion eventually centred on Donald McCormick, a part-timer who had worked with Fleming in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New […]
[…] E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely a word about LBJ’s possible role made it into public consciousness for thirty? forty? years after the event. Why? The political mainstream did […]
[…] by Ian Fleming, foreign manager of Kemsley Newspapers between 1945 and 1959. Suspicion eventually centred on Donald McCormick, a part-timer who had worked with Fleming in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New […]
[…] E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely a word about LBJ’s possible role made it into public consciousness for thirty? forty? years after the event. Why? The political mainstream did […]
[PDF file]: […] Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy in democracy, the Shah. Jimmy Carter took the blame for that, and America launched itself into twenty […]
