[…] embassy supplied lists of communist leaders to the Indonesians who were trying to destroy the PKI. The embassy said the lists were ‘……apparently being used by Indonesian security authorities who seem to lack even the simplest overt information on PKI leadership.’ And they wonder why large chunks of the world hate them! This material […]
[…] account of the events that lead up to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 that overthrew the hated regime of the ‘Shah of Persia’ and his equally hated security and police apparatus; explains why the revolution took the form of both a nationalist struggle and a religious one; and what the results of this have […]
[…] longtime investigator of the Mafia and author of the very good Dark Victory (about Ronald Reagan’s mob connections), was one of many researchers to finger a Cuban-American security guard named Thane Eugene Cesar as a possible second gunman. Now he has reversed himself, claims Sirhan Sirhan acted alone, and has threatened the Baltimore Sun […]
[…] Charles F. Reske came along. Reske is one of those people who shift easily between intelligence and academe. During the Vietnam years, he served with the Naval Security Group, the U.S. Navy’s agency for signals intelligence (SIGINT), and he has collected degrees in history and archaeology. With SOG, what Reske did was amusing in […]
[…] in courageously pursuing his theme that laundered money corrupts the wider economy. He concludes: “Money laundering by criminal or terrorist groups has far-reaching implications for the world’s security.’ As in his earlier BCCI book, Kochan shows a subtle understanding of the role of British bank regulators in dealing with these corrupt practices. The evidence […]
[…] international money orders, payable to Counterpoise at 1716 SW Williston Road, Gainesville, Florida 32608-4049, USA. Surveillant A free issue of Surveillant: Acquisitions and Commentary for Intelligence and Security Professionals has arrived. Vol. 4 numbers 4 and 5, is 96 indexed pages of book reviews in the fields of intelligence history and technology, crime, drug […]
[…] widow in 1975 was the link with Korean biowar experiments not ‘mind control’. Eric Olsen now regards the latter as disinformation. Illustrating the continuity in American national security circles is the fact that a declassified 1975 White House memorandum which suggested the settlement and compensation for Olsen’s widow, was written by the then Deputy […]
Blair and Gladstone Tony Blair’s Labour Party conference speech this year galvanised the delegates who were especially moved by his suggestions that Britain could play the role of an international troubleshooter, bringing liberal values, civilisation and the benefits of its skills in conflict resolution to troubled parts of the world. There were however some more … Read more
[…] text of this memoir into a tape-recorder and didn’t bother proof-reading the transcript (or doing an index). Thus in McAlpine’s memory IRD is ‘a branch of the security services, called, I believe, something like IDA….’ and Ernest Wistrich of the European Movement is ‘Ernest Wisterage’. Extra! the magazine of FAIR http://www.fair.org Also worth checking […]
[…] as this invites readers to construct their own wish-list of topics that really should have been included. I would probably include a wider selection of secret and security services and their misdeeds, including South Africa’s apartheid era BOSS and the French sinkers of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior; an investigation into the murky world of mineral […]
