[…] Moscow in 2021, Burns told Russian 9 officials that any sort of operation that caused severe brain injuries for US personnel was out of bounds for Russia’s spy services, and that there would be consequences if Russia is shown to be responsible, according to people briefed on the conversations. The Times further reported that […]
[PDF file]: […] not be spotted by the Americans? Apparently so.) Penkovsky’s information is one of the few instances in the Cold War I can think of where what a spy did really mattered.75 Most of the time the so-called ‘intelligence war’ was more akin to Mad Magazine’s Spy-vs-Spy.76 72 A study in Foreign Policy states that […]
[…] not be spotted by the Americans? Apparently so.) Penkovsky’s information is one of the few instances in the Cold War I can think of where what a spy did really mattered.74 Most of the time the so-called ‘intelligence war’ was more akin to Mad Magazine’s Spy-vs-Spy.75 Who’s beaming who? The so-called ‘Havana syndrome’ is […]
[PDF file]: […] also be subject to court approved warrants: Edward Snowden: Because, so again, it gets back to legitimate secrets and illegitimate secrets. Some spying from my perspective, ‘career spy’ is okay, right? Joe Rogan: Agreed. Edward Snowden: If you have hacked a terrorist phone, and you’re getting some information about that, useful. Joe Rogan: Agreed. […]
[…] it is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]
[PDF file]: […] Marshall Plan, for example, over a year away in 1947; before even the March arrest of Dr Allan Nunn May and the revelation of the Canadian-based Soviet spy ring; and before Churchill’s American speech in which he first used the term ‘Iron Curtain’. 64 15 February 1948 that he dined with Christopher Warner, who […]
[PDF file]: […] overseas defence commitments. Many resisted, but, as the author points out, by mid-1967: ‘There was no avoiding the conclusion that Britain’s global responsibilities were unsustainable.’ The ‘Soviet spy’ affair of 1971 certainly had potential to turn into a foreign-policy crisis. In the event, the Edward Heath government gambled that it would not and was […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 “Russian spy plot”’.43 At least I think so. But, damn, that article is hard to follow. On the question of the status of the White Helmets in Syria. […]
[PDF file]: […] is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 5 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]
