[…] title was inconceivable 20, even 10 years ago. But there is now a group of British academics, historians mostly, who are working on the history of our secret state; and not just as cheerleaders, like Christopher Andrew. The picture we now have of British domestic politics and the role of the various secret or […]
Global Intelligence: the World’s Secret Services Today Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch, London and New York, Zed Books, 2003 h/back £32.95/ $55.00 p/back £9.99/ $17.50 ‘We lacked specific information on many key aspects of Iraq’s WMD program’ Vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council, Stuart Cohen, December 2003 With the spectacular failure […]
[…] DFS. We find more than twenty such references widely dispersed through the records of at least six government agencies in the U.S.: the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service, Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, the State Department, and the Dallas Police. They are supplemented by still other references to Oswald as ‘Harvey Lee Oswald’, in […]
[…] have gone all of the secrets she shared with JFK. She kept her silence until the end. However, in a recent Channel Four (London) TV documentary series, Secret Lives, in an episode exploring the life of Jackie Kennedy, Lincoln stated that she believed Jackie had affairs prior to the assassination, with Onassis and others, […]
[…] British Empire is the Central Phenomenon of World History Since the Decline of the Vatican’, and its back issue list contained references to such articles as ‘ Secret Societies as tools of British Intelligence’ (November 1984), ‘Rockefeller/British Conflict Over Germany’ (January-February 1985), and ‘The Jews and the Crown’ (March 1985). In addition, the May […]
[…] deceit.” – Peter Dale Scott The Watergate tag is appropriate to Kincora because, like that epic affair, an initial minor offence was the key that unlocked many secret doors. As James Angleton noted: “A mansion has many rooms.” The continuing leaks and revelations in Northern Ireland are gradually drawing in the higher echelons of […]
[…] opposed. (9) The government enlisted the assistance of the Information Research Department (IRD). This covert unit, established by the Labour Government in 1948, was financed from the Secret Intelligence Services budget, with close links to MI6. The government’s campaign had three stages. The first involved the dissemination of information to the press and public; […]
[…] deployed against terrorists at home’. To explain covert operations which occurred before 1976 the authors produce an undercover unit ’14th Intelligence’, whose existence, they claim, ‘has remained secret until revealed to the authors during their research’. 14t Int. was allegedly formed in 1972 when the Army established its own ‘secret intelligence-gathering unit….. known as […]
[…] was terribly cheering to learn from a posting by the National Security Archive ()that General Pinochet ‘had used multiple aliases and false identification to maintain over 125 secret bank accounts at the Riggs National Bank and eight other financial instit-utions in the United States.’ Saviour of the nation? Defender of Christianity? Just another brutal, […]
[…] earnest. Upon returning to the Dubai police head-quarters, Amin and Essam were informed that they could no longer conduct field interviews, (apparently at the request of Dubai secret services), and all interviewees (whether witness or suspect) would be invited (not compelled) to headquarters where the police would ask questions on Amin’s behalf. In addition, […]
