[…] each empire’s respective path. Like the first Americans, the Viking Rus of Kiev had to fight their way towards the Pacific in pursuit of territorial gain and security. Americans distortedly see their origins in the pious ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ fleeing from religious persecution on The Mayflower in the 1620s. The earlier European colonists and the […]
[…] ‘There was a long silence. Finally, someone said, “Oops.”‘ (39) Immediately there was a hurried meeting between the most senior people present. They quickly announced that National Security was being invoked. Destroying the messenger The day following the Press-Enterprise article, Sanders sent his other residue sample to CBS so they could run independent tests […]
[…] of, I believe, by the Katz and Norton-Tayor article. I never met Rusbridger but enjoyed his letters and shared his lack of regard for the intelligence and security services. His disparaging critics on the right, however, were almost certainly correct in claiming that he had few sources within the spook community. His The Intelligence […]
Hess: A Tale of Two Murders Hugh Thomas Hodder and Stoughton, London 1988 This is an update of Thomas’ 1979, The Murder of Rudolf Hess. Thomas argues (a) that the ‘Hess’ in Spandau prison wasn’t Hess at all but a double; and (b) that both the real and false Hess were murdered. The first proposition … Read more
[…] of the Warren Commission, for Houghton Mifflin, entitled A Need to Know. The authors are Aleksandr Fursenko, a Russian historian, and Timothy Naftali, a ‘fellow in International Security Studies’ at Yale. It’s mainly about the Cuban Missile Crisis, drawing on what are described as declassified KGB and other Soviet intelligence materials. The Nation review […]
[…] serious damage with this. Glenmore Trenear-Harvey, who commented regularly on Hutton on television, sent out an e-mail in September, pointing out: ‘….when one of the Cabinet Office Security Policy Division wonks writes on 21 July 2003 (CAB /18/0065) to John Scarlett (with a copy to Sir David Oman) regarding leaks to the media of […]
[…] to bring all this material together before. And don’t be misled by the title: this is much more than an account of the South African intelligence and security agencies. Indeed, in some ways for the general reader, that will be the least interesting strand in the book. For, although the names of the main […]
The Israel Lobby John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt London: Allen Lane, 2007, £25 This account of the relationship between the ‘Israel lobby’ in the US, the US state and Israel should be required reading for anyone with an interest – personal, professional or political – in the troubled affairs of the Middle East. … Read more
Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, … Read more
[…] with our very own Baroness Cox (she of Campaign for a Free Britain) in Toronto. Tugwell spoke on the ‘connections between the “peace” movement, defence and national security and the educational system in Canada’. (Phoenix (Toronto) April 1987) One of the things Tugwell presumably won’t discuss in his book is his support for apartheid […]
