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South of the border
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Spook joke department ‘UK spies will need artificial intelligence’ reads the headline to a Gordon Corera piece on BBC news online.1 Yes, the gags are pretty much writing themselves now. Deferred prosecution agreements – buying your way out of trouble ‘A deferred prosecution agreement, or […]
Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath
Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan
[PDF file]: […] let something like this ‘slip’. More support for the Copeland thesis quoted above, perhaps. But the author shows that at least one other member of the private spook subculture knew ‘the plumbers’ were going into the DNC. However, since McCord and Hunt are dead and Martinez, though alive, won’t talk, we may never know […]
On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA
[PDF file]: […] and draw some new conclusions. Who was Ronald Stark? Judge Floridia’s statement about an ‘impressive series of scrupulously enumerated proofs’ supporting Stark’s claim to have been a spook all along can only be doubted if we allow for the possibility that the judge was corrupt (for which there is no evidence), or that he […]
A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner
MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] opposition which had afflicted Jack Jones.113 On the other hand, the fact that Fairclough recycles this old right-wing MI5 nonsense suggests that he may have been the spook he claims. So there was no ‘communist threat’ in post-war Britain? I wrote about this in 1993. I concluded then that there had been such a […]