[…] a GRU agent, he couldn’t have acted with greater effectiveness.’ (p. 226) The facts are somewhat different. As early as mid-1961 Ward was being run by the Security Service officer, Keith Wagstaffe, then working for D1 (a), Operations, Counter-intelligence. The Service decided to try and ‘honeytrap’ Ivanov, for which Ward was most willing and […]
[…] about virtually anyone’. Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, and guarantees must be provided to safeguard against abuse’. Alan A. Block, ‘The National […]
[…] Geraghty. He argues quite strongly that the war in Northern Ireland is not really over, that the IRA is repositioning itself for another round, and that the security forces must be ready for this. I suspect that this interpretation of developments comes from the same sources as provided the details of electronic surveillance. It […]
[…] can go’. Oddly or not Bilderberg is not in the index. Generalissimo Somehow it was terribly cheering to learn from a posting by the National Security Archive ()that General Pinochet ‘had used multiple aliases and false identification to maintain over 125 secret bank accounts at the Riggs National Bank and eight other […]
[…] to be believed. Where too is Brian Crozier? Since the Langemann papers identified Crozier as a Pinay Circle member who was engaged in setting up a ‘transnational security organisation’, little has been heard of the man or of the progress of the group. Crozier’s last known action — yet another attempt to discredit the […]
[…] Germany, but about his knowledge of Haushofer? That Rudolf Hess might be in Britain was after all a sensational piece of news of considerable interest to the security and intelligence services if true. So why should Sinclair not have told someone with Medhurst’s rank and clearance that Hamilton had identified the man as Hess […]
[…] from which he might escape. (Guardian 21 June 1983) But according to Pantico “Cutulo was terrified because he was about to be moved to Sardinia (a maximum security jail on an island off the Sardinian coast) and the Camorra had heard rumours that he would die on the way in what would be made […]
[…] spy-ing on the UN? How could that be in our national interest? As was revealed in the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US National Security Agency (NSA, the Big Daddy of all the GCSB’s Big Brothers) systematically spied on the UN. So, the answer is that spying on the UN is […]
[…] Deacon’s book With My Little Eye (Frederick Muller, London 1982). Deacon’s contact ‘Poe’, who had served with OSS and CIA told him: “At the time of your security scandals in the early sixties we tried to coax our computer to check on our findings on some of your top people in the services and […]
[…] 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 […]
