The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

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[PDF file]: […] to underestimate their enemies. The USA secret service learned quickly, after a sluggish beginning, especially its signals interception, but was not as good as it boasted (the FBI claimed to have invented and run the ‘double-cross’ system, which I always understood was a British achievement – insofar as it didn’t go back to Biblical […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

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[PDF file]: […] encouraged him kill Kennedy. Following the Kennedy assassination, and even before the end of 1963, the party Oswald ostensibly attended had come to the attention of the FBI agent in Mexico City who had interviewed the participants and discounted the affair. Sylvia Duran’s cousin was the Mexican poet and writer Elena Garro de Paz. […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] officer carrying the rifle from the depository; photographs taken as the rifle was carried through the halls of Dallas Police Department; and photographs taken later by the FBI and Dallas Police Department. (79) The examination by committee photographic consultants determined that all photographs were of the same rifle. Both a study of proportions and […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: […] Act, eight years after the 1959 report by Sir John Wolfenden, father of the blackmailed journalist, the threat of prison loomed. I can imagine that the occasional FBI reports on both Silberman Silberman’s academic ability appears under-estimated by Gillman and Midolo, judging by a posthumous article in Cahiers d’études africaines at . 14 15 […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] spy ring. As president, JFK appointed Michael Straight to head a new arts commission. But when Straight found his background was to be closely vetted by the FBI, he confessed that there was an attempt to recruit him into the Cambridge spy ring while he was a student there. Besides Philby, Burgess and Maclean, […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] officer carrying the rifle from the depository; photographs taken as the rifle was carried through the halls of Dallas Police Department; and photographs taken later by the FBI and Dallas Police Department. (79) The examination by committee photographic consultants determined that all photographs were of the same rifle. Both a study of proportions and […]

View from the bridge

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[…] seems to have been part of his hunt for KGB penetration agents in the CIA. John Newman has argued recently that Oswald These paras are from declassified FBI documents reproduced at . 16 ‘Crusader 80’ was the exercise in which Smith and his Territorial Army colleagues played a part. On ‘Crusader 80’ see or […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

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[PDF file]: […] It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first […]

Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn From Israel by David Rubin

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[PDF file]: […] the Islamists, condemning anyone daring to make a stand as ‘a racist, an Islamophobe, a homophobe, or a sexist’. As for Hillary Clinton, he reports that ‘ongoing FBI investigations may or may not reveal’ whether Muslim nations funding the Clinton Foundation ‘influenced her arrogant tone toward Israel and her decisions as Secretary of State’. […]

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