[…] of Cold War tension was in the US strategic interest since it confirmed Bonn’s determination to stick with Washington rather than Paris when it came to international security issues. An extra 45,000 US troops were sent to West Germany while Adenauer endorsed a modernisation of the armed forces which continued to rely heavily on […]
[…] and counterinsurgency: the strange story of their curious relationship’, Military Review, March/April 2005 (at ) ‘Anthropology is largely and conspicuously absent as a discipline within our national- security enterprise The alternative approach to fighting insurgency, such as the British eventually adopted through trial and error in Northern Ireland, involves the following: A comprehensive plan […]
[…] that “Bishop” met Oswald. In recent years other leads on “Bishop”/Phillips have appeared: Louis Arguelles, who teaches at the Arizona State University, states in “The US National Security State: the CIA and the Cuban Emigre Terrorism ” (in Race and Class, XVIII 4 1982) that she had a personal interview (in August 1980) with […]
[…] remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD’. But other pretexts were being considered. In November 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, met with Bruce Jackson. Jackson had founded the Project for Transitional Democracies, was president of the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO and had served as […]
[…] Smith (1992-4) and Special Adviser to Jack Cunningham. In 1997 she became Chair of the Atlantic Council and she has since been appointed to the Intelligence and Security Committee.(4) The SIS-John Smith connection extends a little further. John Smith’s widow, Lady Smith, was appointed to the SIS-front organisation, the Hakluyt Foundation. Baroness Smith has […]
[…] and the British military thinks this but is unable to say so publicly.(13) Real political power When I began reading about the relationship between the intelligence and security services and the British political system in the early 1980s, it was widely believed on the Labour left that the intelligence and security services were all-powerful […]
[…] an essay by Richard Aldrich of Salford University, one of the small but growing numbers of British academics trying to incorporate the activities of the intelligence and security services into post-war British history. In his essay on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) after the end of the Second World War, Aldrich writes that ‘the […]
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[…] conversations.(2) In this collusion the CIA had the support of a sister Mexican agency which it had helped to create, the Mexican Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Police), or DFS. The DFS, before it was abolished because of its deep involvement in Mexico’s drug traffic, was a key agency in the Mexica Gobernación […]
[…] Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “ security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence […]
