[PDF file]: From the archives: Kim Besly, 1926-1996 Nigel Norman Kim Besly was a peace campaigner and a regular visitor to the women’s camp at Greenham Common in the 1980’s.1 She did not match the stereotype of the ‘Greenham woman’. She was in her late fifties when she went to Greenham and had little involvement in politics […]
[…] Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast at a time of growing concern about the Stalinist regime.’ 38 Even though North Korea does not have a missile […]
[PDF file]: […] E-Mails Published’, Huffington Post, 27 February 2012. 10 Nick Hopkins, ‘Exclusive: MoD Prepares to take part in US Strike against Iran: UK Steps up Plans for Possible Missile Strikes Amid Fresh Nuclear Fears’, The Guardian, 3 November 2011. 11 Israeli Project, Washington, ‘EU Levels New Sanctions Against Iran’, 23 January 2012. See also ‘European […]
[PDF file]: […] retelling this strange story, is that most of the time spies don’t matter. (The obvious exception being Oleg Penkovsky who told the American just before the Cuban missile crisis how few intercontinental missiles the Soviets actually had. Thus the Americans knew the Soviets would back down when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where […]
[…] apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false […]
[PDF file]: […] were detected.’ 49 These ‘foreign bodies’ exactly accord with his medical records. Hess was twice wounded in the upper left arm. ’12.6.16 Wounded near Douaumont , artillery missile left hand and upper arm.’ ‘27.7.17 Wounded in the hills between Ojtoztal and Slanic (left upper arm). Remained with Unit.’50 Thomas missed both these arm wounds. […]
[…] account of the Soviet-American contest (Britain entered the race but was swamped by the other two), first to acquire German rocket scientists and then to develop a missile, contains one chapter on a bit of dodgy business by an American on the committee deciding which of the rival bids should make the American missile, […]
[PDF file]: […] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a major role in the […]
[…] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. But the declassified Soviet documents make some important corrections […]
[…] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a major role in the […]
