[…] direct-connect terminal or a remote terminal through the phone lines, in order to utilize a back door. Ari Ben-Menashe wants us to believe that foreigners (Britain, Australia, Iraq, South Korea, Canada, and ‘many others’) allow technicians from another country to install new computer systems in the heart of their intelligence establishments, and don’t even […]
[…] London Dome fiasco. However, its fall was also due to its exclusivity: ‘old’ people were banned. A snapshot of the country emerged following the sad death in Iraq of hostage Ken Bigley. A ‘modern’ Briton turned out to be a grandfather working overseas because he did not have an adequate pension. Another example was […]
[…] more public profile as the Chairman of Westland. 3i (a name difficult to find in indexes) was involved with many of the companies later embroiled in Arms-to- Iraq, particularly with Astra, where they were the main institutional shareholder. (6) Larry Tindale, as a non-executive director, often chaired board meetings in Nadir’s absence, and became […]
[…] School of Oriental Studies at Durham University (the poor man’s equivalent of St. Antony’s). Intelligence officer in early part of the war in Syria later political officer Iraq and post-war senior diplomat. (Independent 11 July 1990) Col. Terence Maxwell: died 1991 Cyril Mills (Daily Telegraph 22 July 1991) Charles Stuart (Daily Telegraph 1 August […]
[…] how some CIA officers were urgently trying to sell Saddam a consignment of Soviet-made shoulder-operated SAMs in February 1991, at the height of the air war against Iraq. This factionalism may also have accounted for the CIA target set that resulted in the whoopsy-daisy destruction of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo […]
[…] to the invasion of Afghanistan, I was not once interrogated or in any way scrutinised by the Foreign Affairs Committee. The committee’s series of reports on the Iraq war stand as acute evidence of this failure to scrutinise. Inside the FCO, the recommendations of the FAC are given little attention. The FCO will politely […]
[…] Carlyle Group has sought to divest itself of its dependency on the querulous House of Saud in favour of the new ‘opportunities’ emerging from a now pliable Iraq (thanks, no doubt, to the generous economic ‘reforms’ introduced under Order 39 which allows for the wholesale auction of Iraqi assets to multinational corporations). If ever […]
[…] be clarified. He was Prime Minister under Giscard from 1974 on and liaised with Marenches, Giscard’s spymaster, on many matters, including the sale of nuclear technology to Iraq. Marenches and Chirac are further linked through the person of Michel Roussin, who liaised between the SDECE and the Prime Minister’s office from 1972-76. Roussin rose […]
[…] on the defensive so unfairly. Critics of US foreign policy have become inured to the smear ‘anti-American’ from all quarters. It’s sad that this talented writer, both in the New Statesman and in the Iraq war-supporting Observer that hosts his other column should seek to make the same smearing generalisation about many of his readers.
[…] missing. It’s not that the author is afraid of making political comments. He is properly scathing about the events surrounding the Australian support for the invasion of Iraq and the persecution of the lone Australian intelligence analyst willing to say that the emperor had no clothes on; and he writes this for example on […]
