The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] post-mortem and the following paragraphs are from the executive summary.2 The italicised bits are my comments. 1 2 The report’s executive summary is at . ‘The IMF’s surveillance of the euro area financial regulatory architecture was generally of high quality, but staff, along with most other experts, missed the build-up of banking system risks […]

Secrecy in Britain

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[PDF file]: […] European countries can do this there can be no conceivable reason for not doing so other than it would shock the public as to the extent of surveillance, spying and the use of informants. MI5 is on record as destroying a vast number of these files – what has not been destroyed should be […]

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[…] bin Salman, whom Trump “likes a lot”. (Emphasis in the original.) The two men are Esam Ghazzawi and Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community 8 9 or 10 11 4 showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] And as former head of the U2 programme, nobody knew better than Bissell that the Soviets were not a 3 threat to the US. Prior to those surveillance flights which began in 1957, what was happening behind ‘the iron curtain’, e.g. how many missiles the Soviets had, etc., was unknown and the ‘danger’ belief […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

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[PDF file]: […] existence in 1940. At the time this interview took place, MI5 were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear […]

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[…] nose of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom Trump “likes a lot”. The two men are Esam Ghazzawi and Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: 8 9 or […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: […] Cahiers d’études africaines at . 14 15 16 Murder in Cairo, p. 76 6 and Holden, in East Africa and in the USA, were no more than surveillance of gay men rather than spies. But I could be wrong. There is no evidence whatsoever from Moscow Centre of any service that David Holden or […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . 4 5 The potted history of MI5 available online at the National Archives is blunt: ‘In early 1939 the Service contained only 30 officers and its surveillance strength was only 6.’ For an indication of how MI5 approached their task, see who were of call-up age but in reserved occupations.6 The Auxiliary Units’ […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the Snowdon revelations of 4 5 6 The complete transcript, over 200 pages of it, a fascinating read, is at On Rometsch see . the NSA/GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would […]

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