[…] begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — the ‘octopus’ — has become. From the start there have been many awkward and unanswered questions about the Lockerbie affair. Why were the widely-signalled […]
[…] in Iraq. Britain’s Iraq Intelligence Product See note (17) One way to evaluate Britain’s Iraq intelligence product is to read SIS’s ‘Briefing Note’ to the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) which was published in September 2003.(18) Under the heading ‘The Iraqi in the Street’, and sticking to all outdated stereotypes, SIS writes, ‘Are you […]
[…] said he had been an informant in this entire Bristol period, and had driven Jordan on his reconnaissance expeditions to the home of Colonel Baty, while the security services in one guise or another paid for the petrol and his time off work.(2) Jordan pleaded guilty at his trial. Patrick Brazil, the seaman and […]
[…] of fading aristocrats and eccentric M.Ps or forces which were much more powerfully rooted in the structure of the British State? What was their relationship with the security and intelligence services? Why did Churchill feel the need to have his own intelligence adviser, Sir Desmond Morton? Costello seems to believe that the pro-appeasement faction […]
[…] solo work Dorril has firmly imposed his grip on a wealth of facts which reaffirm his place as one of Britain’s leading exhumers of the modern ‘ security and intelligence community’. Whilst some of the earlier chapters do go over old ground, the later chapters tread into so far uncharted areas. This new ground, […]
[…] were disidentified, though no one is able to say why. According to Newsweek, however, the order to remove the tags was issued by Robert Pastor, the National Security Council’s staff coordinator for Latin American and Caribbean affairs. Asked about this, Pastor denies that he gave such an order, adding that it would have been […]
[…] inside Congress by the pay-off system refined most recently by the unregistered South Korean lobbyist, Tongsun Park, and outside it by the old military-industrial coalition, the American Security Council. All four elements have worked in collaboration since the days when Chinese nationalist gold, via a Mafia-tainted public relations firm, first made Richard Nixon a […]
[…] and Gerry Gable. The reader is invited to accept that Murray has undergone a political conversion and we are offered, as evidence, ‘a sensational expose of the security services’. Unfortunately, most of the book is a rehash of stories researched by others, and the rest is oddly coy over naming names. Murray reworks published […]
[…] (up til 1982, SDECE: Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage), reining in a counter-espionage division that had clashed frequently in the past with the French internal security agencies, and redefining the renamed service’s role as an exclusively overseas one. (But see below re Mazurier…) Marion also centralised the DGSE around his General Directorate […]
[…] who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a DIA campaign to remilitarize the US intelligence structure. According to Coleman the Pentagon […]
