[…] double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological agents. He was referring to David Wise’s book, Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas. ………the deception ultimately worked against US interests by spurring the Soviets to develop more lethal chemical and biological agents and may […]
[…] Cryptome carries a translation of the document, which was first released onto California-based Yahoo website, which closed after a few days. The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves […]
[…] a kind of theoretical framework for the case studies which follow it, Lawrence seeks to document “striking advances (which) have emerged in the functioning of the (U.S.) secret police.” For Lawrence, “By the end of the sixties it was clear to the establishment that its traditional methods of social control were weakening, and that […]
[…] scientific pioneers had (and still have?) in investigating and trying to measure and define the ‘paranormal’.(6) He also concludes that there is, indeed, a ‘trail of top secret research …… which led to Star Wars’ which can be traced back to Tesla. Tesla died, aged 86, on 8 January 1943. A representative of RCA […]
[…] he duly reported without comment. I have been told by a woman who knew Shaw very well throughout the 1950s and 60’s that Shaw’s homosexuality was no secret in his social circle. But while his friends might know he was gay New Orleans as a town did not. If I underscore his homosexuality it […]
[…] that ambitious and impressive. The authors are senior British legal academics, and in this they survey the construction – and propose the reconstruction – of the British secret state. After an opening discussion of the philosophical basis of their analysis, they methodically work through the historical and legal background to the extant legislation on […]
[…] Chancellor Julius Raabe, the prerequisites for the Governmental Agreement were made public, BIS did everything possible to discredit Raabe. During the 1950s the BIS created a very secret department which was named Special Political Actions (SPA). The range of problems presented to the SPA was very broad. I’d like to give an excerpt from […]
[…] was the refusal of Britain’s spies to disclose what they knew about their Iraqi counterparts that led to the fiasco surrounding the latest British dossier.’ Michael Smith, ‘Secret service stand on sources led to blunder’, Daily Telegraph, 8 February, < http://www. telegraph.co.uk/news/main jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/08/ndoss 108.xml/ > . 10 ‘Blair Acknowledges Flaws in Iraq Dossier’ < […]
[…] Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00 Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox – i.e. secret – diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of […]
