[…] outfit, Veruscript, whose founders are Russian.1 9 Is it a front for Russian intelligence? Not that anyone can demonstrate; but that didn’t prevent people – including former SIS chief Richard Dearlove – resigning from the forum because… well, just in case, I suppose.2 0 And Professor Andrew resigned from the board of the publishing […]
[…] 5 American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action had editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used […]
[PDF file]: […] by a body-double during her brief reappearance on the sidewalk, as she appeared to be behaving in a totally normal way. The traditional arsenal of amateur photoanaly sis was unleashed, with before-and-after comparisons of Mrs Clinton’s fingers, gait, hair, weight and ears all being relied upon to support this theory of a stand-in.2 The […]
[PDF file]: […] that were, at the very least, covertly approved by the government of the United Kingdom. Stephen Dorril’s book on MI6 has a chapter that details how both SIS and GCHQ provided what was, at times, significantly more than discrete assistance.3 The entire cadre of Stirling’s assistant commanders in Watchguard appear to have been current […]
[PDF file]: […] the Telegraph Jeremy Warner commented: ‘Over the last ten years, the has been pretty much wrong about everything of substance. It failed to see the financial cri sis coming, and it failed to anticipate the eurozone debt crisis, having essentially become a cheerleader for integrationist ambitions of monetary union. It then proceeded to become […]
[PDF file]: […] I occasionally found the narrative hard to follow (probably because of the difficulty I have with pronouncing and remembering Arabic names). Some of the story is familiar: SIS helping to create Al Qaeda (trying to use Jihadis) and creating an armed opposition to Gaddafi in Libya (trying to use Jihadis). We can see how […]
[PDF file]: […] having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would be surprising if SIS (or whoever) had not put some of their people into the Party in order to monitor and report back. Although I cannot prove it, I am […]
[PDF file]: […] Blood Year, an assessment of what Western strategy has achieved. The picture is pretty grim: ‘In the northern summer of 2014, in less than 100 days, I SIS launched its blitzkrieg in Iraq, Libya’s government collapsed, civil war engulfed Yemen, a sometime small-town Iraqi preacher named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself caliph, the latest […]
[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that […]
[PDF file]: ‘We’re doomed!’ A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks Nick Must The broadcasting by the BBC during the Christmas period 2015 of a comedy drama based around the creation of the Dad’s Army television series, reminded me of how the Home Guard were used during World War II as the cover for a […]
