[PDF file]: […] weapons sales for (mostly American) weapons corporations. Reuters reported recently that NATO member Poland was about to buy the Patriot missiles: ‘Poland strike deals for US Patriot missile systems that could be worth up to $8 billion’ was the subheading to the story.39 To sell weapons, ‘threats’ need to be created and thus the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] his Vassal State, writes that 56% of British shares are now owned overseas. See the review by John Booth at or . 73 24 74 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] his Vassal State, writes that 56% of British shares are now owned overseas. See the review by John Booth at or . 63 21 64 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
