[PDF file]: TO CATCH A SPY How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold Tim Tate London: Icon, h/b, £25 Robin Ramsay The publisher sent me a pre-publication proof copy of this on spec and my initial reaction was: Is there really any need to go over this old ground again? Turns out, there […]
[…] a summary of this case see Robert I.Friedman, ‘The Enemy Within,’ Village Voice, 11 May 1993, pp. 27-32; and Richard C. Paddock, ‘New Details of Extensive ADL Spy Operation Emerge,’ Los Angeles Times, 13 April 1993, pp. A1, A16. For an outline of the conspiracy against LaRouche by the ADL and U.S. intelligence operatives, […]
[…] Echelon The European Parliament will commission a report into the workings of Echelon (Wired News 30 Sept 1998 www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15295.html) In the US, a new report, ‘Echelon: America’s Spy in the Sky’, detailing the history and workings of the NSA’s global surveillance system, will be sent to members of Congress. Report at: http://www.freecongress.org/ctp/echelon.html ‘Somebody’s Listening’, […]
[…] to make sure that it has elected a government who will control it, even as it has tried to control us. Corinne Souza is currently writing The Spy and a Lobbyist. Her businessman father was a decorated Commonwealth Agent who served SIS for nearly twenty years. The book covers the impact that SIS had […]
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing […]
[…] resulting from interception activities were published by the US press – before Europe became concerned about the ECHELON system. See: ‘Germany, UK breaching human rights with NSA spy link-up’, Duncan Campbell, 27 May 2001, www.heise.de/tp/english/special/ech/7753/1.html; and Campbell’s reports to the ECHELON C’tee: ‘ECHELON and its role in COMINT’, Jan. 2001, www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/7747/1.html which summarises evidence […]
Paul Lashmar Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK), 1996 £12.99 (pb) Beautifully produced, large (trade) format, with many photographs, this is the story of the US and later US-UK spy flights round – and over – the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Alternatively, it is the story of a protracted series of skirmishes between the […]
[…] ‘Jim Jones was always mysterious and would never talk about his work here in Brazil.'(48) Yet another Rocha, Marco Aurelio, was absolutely certain that Jones was a spy. At the time, Marco was dating a young girl who was living in the Jones household.(49) Because of this, and because Rua Maraba is a narrow […]
[…] companies’ (pp. 989-1014); Cedric Ryngaert’s ‘Litigating abuses committed by private military companies’ (pp. 1035-1053); and Simon Chesterman’s examination of outsourcing in the intelligence gathering community (‘“We can’t spy if we can’t buy!”: the privatization of intelligence and the limits of out-sourcing “inherently governmental functions”’, pp. 1055-1074), in particular his section on incentives: ‘there are […]
Hitler’s spy chief: the Wilhelm Canaris mystery Richard Bassett London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005, £20 This is a full and very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, […]
