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Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA
[…] 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 […]
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire Douglas Valentine Orgeon: TrineDay, 2023, $24.95 www.TrineDay.com Robin Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the […]
View from Bridge 88 copy
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire Douglas Valentine Orgeon: TrineDay, 2023, $24.95 www.TrineDay.com Robin Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the […]
View from Bridge copy
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac
The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] at GCHQ 2010-13, and previously filled senior foreign service roles dealing with the Middle East’. (https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/ clovis-meath-baker). So Mr Snell has some version of the word ‘ spook’ running through him, but the work relationship with Christopher Steele can only be proven via Orbis. But see also Reform’s Richard Tice on nationalising British Steel […]