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[…] 1 1 corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).2 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea. His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to Give Us Adequate Warning: The Need for a Public Inquiry’.3 Shea assembled official US agency reports […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

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[…] makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low budget end, which the author discusses. […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American politics. In the LBJ library’s oral history section there is an interview with Cartha Deloach, a senior FBI man of the period, who was that agency’s liaison with President Johnson, in which this exchange takes place. Question: ‘There was evidence, though, that Anna Chennault […]

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[…] and they had failed to provide any evidence. The second line of attack was to suggest there was actually an elaborate ‘Deep State’ conspiracy involving Crowdstrike, the FBI and US intelligence agencies, to falsely blame Russia, in a bid to hide the fact the hacking was actually an ‘inside job’. Banyan has done a […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take care of other needs.30 Both men […]

The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

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[PDF file]: […] knew he might face life imprisonment for doing so. A bizarre series of events, recounted in The Doomsday Machine, put them beyond the reach of both the FBI and the author. There is much in Ellsberg’s book that is bizarre, if not amusing, as he recounts what he learned about the workings of the […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

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[PDF file]: […] (and their foreign equivalents) don’t take an interest in the malware products of private companies, especially those with connections to Unit 8200. It was reported that the FBI had bought Pegasus in 2019 but that they hadn’t chosen to use it.3 The same report said that the US government had blacklisted NSO for fear […]

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[…] their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: 8 9 or 10 11 4 FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take care of other needs.12 Both men […]

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 […]

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