[…] the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure. The second is that there is too much information; and there would be even more if the FBI/NSA/CIA had enough translators of the various languages […]
[…] recovered from Thuringia in the 1930s…. Zero Point fails to provide either new information or entertainment. Instead it adds another layer of cover, telling us more about the sophistication of the security apparatus protect-ing this subject than it does about the elusive aircraft themselves. Notes 1 The Hunt for Zero Point, London: Century, 2001, £17.99
[…] for that is what ‘the national interest’ means. But what is the ‘British economic interest’? British economic interests? The annual report for 2004/5 of the Intelligence and Security Committee noted in chapter 13 under the heading ‘Economic well-being’: ‘We took evidence from Ministers, departments and the Agencies on the Agencies’ work to support and […]
[…] ‘briefings’ put out by IRD in the 1970s and is proof that while IRD may have officially closed, its functions continue in other guises. Canadian Association For Security And Intelligence Studies Newsletter Issue 10 arrived, chock full of news and details of books recent and forthcoming in the intelligence field. It includes a couple […]
[…] which first revealed the existence of the ‘Gable memorandum’, and included a quotation from a profile of Gable in the Jewish Chronicle which mentioned his ‘contacts…..in the security services’. The allegation that our article is ‘based on’ whatever former NF members Harrington and Griffin were writing or saying six years ago is totally untrue. […]
[…] others (frequently American owned) when they retire. These consultancies presumably include any number of lobbyists and ‘risk assessment consultancies’ (whether owned by insurance companies or by private security companies which are themselves owned by foreign insurance companies). So much for patriotism! One can only laugh at all of this, for otherwise one would weep. […]
[…] washing experiments under MK Ultra are suing the US government. There is a suggestion that the UK government was involved in similar operations. Part of the surviving CIA documentation on MK Ultra (most was destroyed on Helms’ orders) reads: “allied governments where the security services has people under its control.” New Scientist 2nd Feb. 1984
Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual … Read more
[…] the SS, necessitated by strategy, away from Rosenberg’s biological exultation of Nordicism towards the ascendant pan-Europeanism of the Waffen SS and factions within the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) who saw it as detrimental to an effective occupation policy. Embracing Nordicism as a desirable yet unattainable aesthetic ideal, this element set about restructuring fascism […]
[…] and one-time head of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department; former CIA director James Schlesinger; another well known CIA man, Ray Cline; Robert McFarlane, former US National Security Adviser; and Irving Brown, former head of the international work of the AFL-CIO, the American TUC and a well known CIA figure in the post-war labour […]
