[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Orford Ness had a very extensive array of Over the Horizon radar antennae that were used to track Soviet communications and monitor Soviet missile tests. The pirate station could, therefore, have been either interfering with this work or listening in to it on behalf of the eastern bloc. Page 30 […]
