[…] following collusion between the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) – was released then.9 The Loyalist killers believed Maginn to be an IRA intelligence officer because the British state had, effectively, told them so. In an attempt to counter the family’s denial that Maginn had any IRA connection, ‘the UDA […]
[PDF file]: […] new * Neon and day-glow guns ‘R’ us. Former NSA contractor Reality Winner1 is currently incarcerated pre-trial for alleged leaking to the press of details on American intelligence agencies investigations into foreign interference during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Much of the media coverage has included humorous references to Ms Winner’s claim that she […]
[PDF file]: […] brought seven mobile crematoriums into Crimea to conceal troop losses and destroy evidence of Russian war crimes. Furthermore, they were operating under the control of Russian military intelligence. ‘Each of these crematoriums burns 8-10 bodies per day,’ Nalyvaichenko declared.2 The cremation of a corpse is not easy or trivial. Humans come in all shapes […]
[PDF file]: […] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]
[…] brought seven mobile crematoriums into Crimea to conceal troop losses and destroy evidence of Russian war crimes. Furthermore, they were operating under the control of Russian military intelligence. ‘Each of these crematoriums burns 8-10 bodies per day,’ Nalyvaichenko declared.2 The cremation of a corpse is not easy or trivial. Humans come in all shapes […]
[…] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]
[…] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]
[PDF file]: […] . 2 Peter Blaker was a ‘former diplomat’ who served in Thatcher cabinets and would later, due to ‘knowledge of defence, foreign policy and the world of intelligence’ be ‘the only Lords member of the Intelligence and Security Committee’. See or 3 1 abundantly clear that the author, Andrew Rosthorn, is intricately familiar with […]
[…] Horse Guards Road , you’re likely to find that everyone but you is an investment banker!’ 3 Fixing facts, faking history I think that the phrase ‘the intelligence and the facts were being fixed round the policy’, which was in the 2002 memo from Matthew Rycroft to a section of those managing the UK’s […]
[…] 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 […]
