Search Results for: spook
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] in is actually a part of the larger Erbil International Marathon,63 which includes races of 42km (i.e. marathon) the 12km section and a 4km.64 A right Royal spook. There was a brief media orgasm at the end of the first week of April when it was announced that Prince William had been ‘working’ at […]
South of the border (occasional snippets from)
[PDF file]: […] methods to create, probably something only in the capabilities of a state actor’.4 (Emphasis added.) More recently still, testifying at the inquiry into the See . A spook career that can include stints at both 5 and 6 is now much more normal that in the past. A 2021 recruitment post from SIS at […]
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] National Archives at Kew (NA) hosts ‘An evening with Dame Stella Rimington’.2 It would appear that the NA holds nothing of significance from her time as a spook. As an example, the publicly available files on MI5 monitoring of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) only extends as far as February of 1934.3 […]
Angles Morts
The View from the Bridge
The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue. * new * The higher bullshit There has been more well-intentioned nonsense written by academics about the assassination of JFK than any other subject I have looked at. A classic of […]
Beaumont novel copy
[…] and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew when he was an undergraduate there. In this setting Beaumont – whether ex- spook or not – has written a very good, nicely written and gripping account of Sharman’s investigation of this network (and occasionally killing as the Russians try […]