[…] be what to do about our spooks. A sort of answer is being given in Greece where the (nominally) socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting […]
[…] and made a secret visit to the rebel hiding place in Ireland to try to persuade the Irish Republican leaders to be reasonable. He contrasted the in security of the Transvaal Republic before 1895 with its happy condition under dominion status since 1910 …. Smuts arranged an armistice and a conference to negotiate a […]
[…] welcoming words for Coughlin? ‘Con is a journalist par excellence for our times. His skills and expertise are right at the heart of the foreign, defence and security issues that confront us daily.’ Evening Standard business editor Chris Blackhurst also seems to be a bit slow catching on. He started a recent glowing piece […]
[…] of Afghanistan have been a matter of imperial indifference. On Washington’s agenda in this case are secure oil and gas pipelines, military bases, and, if and when security can be instituted, the forces of globalisation will march in. Meanwhile in Iraq, what the US bombing, invasion and occupation have brought to the people there […]
Nicola Calipari’s death If the tragic death of ‘Nicola Calipari’, the international oper-ations chief of Italy’s military intelligence service, in March 2005, was, as has been alleged, a deliberate act rather than misadventure, it is one of the most recent examples of extreme PR ‘message management’ I can think of. ([1]) ‘Public relations’ is about … Read more
[…] in Area 15 with tritium’, D. L . Fraser, the General Manager in his letter of December 7, 1993, to Bruce Church, Assistant Manager for Environment, Safety, Security and Health of the Nevada Operations Office of the DOE, finally conceded that ‘In the area of human experimentation, several types of studies were found which […]
[…] influence to bring together several disparate factions and groupings into C18’ (p. 2). There was speculation of a possible intelligence input, that of the ‘South African state security services’ (p. 3), though the only evidence offered was the presence of some anti-Apartheid individuals on the Redwatch hit-lists. The contribution by Searchlight publisher Gerry Gable […]
When Labour narrowly won the October 1964 election they were greeted by dismal balance of payments figures. An external deficit in the region of £800 million was forecast, twice what had been expected (although the actual figure has since been revised down to £372 million). The government attempted to manage the crisis by a package … Read more
[…] laundering machine in Panama.'(22) According to Castillo, the entire program was run out of Ilopango’s Hangars 4 and 5: ‘The CIA owned one hangar and the National Security Council ran the other.'(23) Castillo also reported that the CIA in El Salvador requested a U.S. visa for one Contra pilot listed by the DEA as […]
[…] Zealand, little New Zealand was challenging the US. (The world we have lost.) Inadvertently released in the Lange papers, was the 1985/6 annual report of Government Communications Security Bureau – the New Zealand outpost of the NSA’s net-work of listening/interception stations. (We have GCHQ at Cheltenham and Menwith Hill.) The report shows that GCSB […]
