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[PDF file]: […] the Bletchley Park ‘ultra’ story; and the farcical events around Peter Wright’s Spycatcher. If the theme and the major incidents are familiar, much of the detail was new to me. But within this is an 80 page section in which Moran tries to persuade us that in the 1950s and 60s the British press […]
[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in […]
[PDF file]: […] they could do a post-election opinion poll asking people if they were influenced by the Agency’s work; by the nature of things the work was concealed. Perhaps new techniques will be developed to track the impact of disinformation on target audiences; but those methods, too, would have to remain invisible and untraceable. There is […]
[PDF file]: […] fuel tanks. (NB The Me 110D, introduced in April 1940 had a range of over 800 miles.) In the diary kept by Maisky, the Soviet Ambassador, he notes in his entry for 3 June 1941, following his lunch with Beaverbrook ‘an additional fuel tank was attached to Hess’s plane, and he flew from Germany […]
[PDF file]: […] same time extending the scope and intensity of bureaucracy. After a circuitous tour he leaves us with the basis for a theory of bureaucracy. (I never k new I needed one before.) But whenever you hear that the market is superior to bureaucracy, and bureaucrats are held up to ridicule, you will be able […]
[…] TV long before becoming an MP in 1964. Had she really ‘failed to appreciate the media interest in the latest phase’ of the setting up of a new party that would for two general elections split opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives? Evacuated by her parents to the United States in the Second World War, […]
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[PDF file]: […] a US government bacteriologist working on germ warfare projects who was probably pushed to his death out of a tenth floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York in 1953. Reviewing the book led me to do some desultory research on the UK’s forays in to mind control drugs, and while I won’t […]
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