[…] reported 16 full-time staff?’ 39 The essays are at or . 40 41 Others – e.g. Wiki spooks42 – are less circumspect and are sure it’s a spook front. What appears to be evidence supporting the Wikispooks analysis is to be found in Dilyana Gaytandzhieva’s ‘Exposed: Bellingcat fabricate evidence, deliberately hide documents in new […]
[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]: 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 […]
[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 […]
