[…] Powers doesn’t. These essays are mostly about the CIA. The problem is that there are two CIAs. There’s the CIA which does analysis, gathers information and conducts espionage and counterespionage. This is a central intelligence agency. But there’s another one, which kills, bribes, corrupts, overthrows. This is not an intelligence agency: it is a […]
[PDF file]: […] may have stayed so had the Japanese not attacked Pearl Harbour. As indicated in the title, there was some US-UK collaboration on this matter and various German espionage activities in the US were thwarted. But the involvement of MI5 was actually quite limited. In 1937-1938 they monitored the activities of a Mrs Jordan who […]
[PDF file]: […] 2011 Development of SIS novelists T he SIS has also had the good sense and patience to encourage youngish men to establish careers as novelists – like espionage, PR is a long game. The authors I have noticed with SIS connection now maintaining the brand by feeding the espionage fiction habit are Charles Cumming […]
[PDF file]: […] where reports from sources (both overt and covert) would be read, assessed and collated. Considering that it uses techniques that are so close to those of state espionage, it should come as no surprise that Palantir Technologies has Sir Mark Allen (the ex-MI6 officer who is a suspect in rendition cases) as ‘a senior […]
[…] of it even has reassuring Eastern European labels on it. If the former Soviet bloc can no longer be plausibly portrayed as exporting revolution, terrorism, subversion and espionage to Britain, the remnants of the Soviet empire are now (we are told) engaged in money laundering, drug-running, gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear […]
[PDF file]: […] FBI saying they looked into this case because of “a potential violation of federal law under our jurisdiction that we did investigate”, the Bureau neither investigated the espionage angle they opened the file for, nor any of the potential violations of federal law involved in forging government documents.’12 This is self-evidently significant. A major […]
[PDF file]: […] 106 Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda, pp. 85-95; Anderson and Gibson, Peace, War, and Politics, pp. 233-241. 107 Feldstein, Poisoning the Press, p. 280. 108 James McCord, ‘Counter- Espionage Agent for the Republicans: The True Story of the Watergate Case’, in House Armed Services, Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, Inquiry into the Alleged Involvement of the […]
[PDF file]: […] Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Sir Jeremy MacKenzie, plus a former Special Branch member whose police career included ‘responsibilities in counter-terrorism, counter- espionage, counter-subversion and counter-proliferation’.5 3 Attempts at industry regulation In 2001, then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government 51 See Chris Slater, ‘Danny Fitzsimons: Iraq security guard “claimed […]
[PDF file]: […] was not exactly where the political Did we need the 22 pages the author devotes to Hunt’s biography? In it we learn a great deal about Hunt’s espionage novels and the fact that Hunt took the job with the White House because he needed to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term […]
[PDF file]: […] agent of the Kremlin, a member of Hamas, of the Yakuza, of the IRA and of Al Qaeda. She has even been accused of being ‘an undercover espionage agent with partner, Beyonce Knowles’, protecting the real Tupac Shakur, who is not dead but working for Vladimir Putin. Most hilariously, she has been accused of […]
