What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
[…] many other organisations — were ‘checked’ by MI5 to see if they had been penetrated by the KGB. As in Spycatcher he denigrates both MI6 and the CIA, here describing a minor Middle Eastern incident in which MI6 and the CIA were backing different factions in the same country. The reliability of any of […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patri cia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving […]
[…] is no reference to the Digest’s post-war activities on the political right, let alone the recent allegation by Fred Landis, that it has been working with the CIA. On p. 255 the author states:’the details of Watergate hardly need retelling’ – as if anyone is actually clear what was really going on. (Anyone who […]
[…] the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the Sunday Telegraph, 27 February, 1994, said that Ames ‘recruited Soviet agents, ruthlessly betraying at least 10, knowing they would be shot or, like […]
[…] in a larger conspiracy.'(23) Gerald Posner believes that Paul was in regular contact with the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), the French equivalent of the CIA, ‘an arrangement not unheard of among security staffers at premier international hotels.’ He also claims that Paul ‘spent the last several hours before the crash with […]
[…] from international relations to crime and commerce – sometimes, I am told, turning a blind eye to some crime if it was in multinational or, for example, CIA interest – without winning the hearts and minds of his own colleagues. This, I understand, not spending cuts, was the basis of the reported ‘poor morale’ […]
[…] meeting of the Bilderberg Group; an unprecedented and thorough audit of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox; and the establishment of a partnership agreement between the CIA and Mossad. Amounts substantial enough for Indonesian President Sukarno to consider using it as financial backing for the establishment of an international non-aligned bank. One of […]
[…] Milan. Indeed, it was in Milan that they centred their non-US operations. Politically unstable and financially corrupt, Italy was a peculiar choice. It was, however, central to CIA operations in Europe. London was still a rival financial centre and Paris only a part-time ally of the US after DeGaulle. The later history of Andersen […]
