[…] Commission Chief Counsel J. Lee Rankin (3), but nobody on the Commission has owned up to seeing it. The potentially explosive material contained in the memo was secret for 12 years, and even now the full text has not been released. Curiously, support for the memo’s claims came in an article written by the […]
[…] two and a half years, he ran a series of intelligence operations. I quote him so that there can be no suspicion that he might be a secret member of the Militant Tendency or a secret republican. At the public meeting, his words were that he believed that the Army officers and men with […]
[…] wrong by security or intelligence officials. (See for example ‘MPs urge spies curb’ in The Guardian, 3 November 1998 and ‘Investigator to get wide powers to quiz secret service’, The Sunday Telegraph 14 February 1999.) This ‘special investigator’ is, of course, another piece of Whitehall bullshit which will not satisfy the Intelligence and Security […]
[…] and after a tour of duty in Europe, returned to South Vietnam in 1954 as an aide to the above-mentioned Ed Lansdale, to help organize the CIA’s secret anti-communist forces in North Vietnam. As a measure of his knack for deceit and deception, it is worth noting that one of Conein’s favorite ‘dirty tricks’ […]
[…] (BMEWS) Site III, RAF, England.'(7) In conjunction with this regulation exists US Space Command Regulation 55-20, Warning Verification of Hostile Space Events, dated 31 January 1990, classified secret. ‘This regulation establishes procedures to provide timely and accurate status reporting, warning and verification of hostile space events to National Command Authorities (NCA), collatoral agencies, space […]
[…] he helped set up and European magazines which followed its example, the French Intelligence and Parapolitics (later Intelligence) and the German Geheim and its English-language version, Top Secret. This report portrays them all as part of Soviet disinformation strategies. If this was true of Geheim/Top Secret, I don’t think it true of Intelligence. Lobster […]
[…] the UCA as a real if somewhat mysterious group. (According to Wallace the Information Policy paper was written by Jeremy Railton, sometime head of Inf Pol, the secret psychological operations unit for which Wallace worked.) It could be argued, of course, that were the UCA a psychological operation the British state forces would do […]
[…] on the British government to send the SAS into Dundalk and hunt down dissident republicans by deadly force. As Irish Home Affairs Minister Brian Cowan was in secret talks with dissident republicans at the time and the Garda Siochana were prevented from dealing with dissident republicans appropriately, Johnny McLaughlin was right. He was nonetheless […]
[…] Glass’ (reviewed Lobster 3). ‘West’ lumps it in with Bloch and Fitzgerald’s British Intelligence and Covert Action: “both books contained the names of active members of the Secret Intelligence Service and caused disquiet on the sixth floor of Century House.” (Times 19th March) West thus demonstrates that he probably didn’t read Verrier – which […]
[…] Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ After reading this I thought: sure, he is innocent and I’m Santa Claus! But my interest in this story grew because my house in […]
