[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Shayler ‘bigs-up’ Mr Shayler I feel I should point out that David Shayler has some form for being mendacious and opaque when discussing his career as a spook with journalists. In a 2001 interview with The Socialist he stated: ‘I can put my hand on my heart and say that I never investigated subversives. […]
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 […]
[PDF file]: […] wrote, ‘CSIS management willingly and deliberately coerced by intimidation (hence “terrorize”), and gained submission by inducing fear (hence “terrorism”).’3 Mr. Baltruweit is not the only former Canadian spook to refer to CSIS’s well-known illegal use of ‘counter intelligence tactics used for surveillance, intimidation and harassment’. In an article in Lobster 61, ‘CSIS and the […]
