[…] Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b This is a curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? The […]
[…] Next could come the representatives, including the religious and corporate ones, of the various communities in this country and the Commonwealth, who are the beneficiaries of political intelligence, including protection from terrorism. If SIS got the external messages wrong, it did not do too well with the internal ones either. For example, had it […]
[…] because of Scott’s essay, was banned by the Indonesian government. Scott’s essay is a classic demonstration of parapolitics as a subject area – the presence of covert, intelligence agency activity beneath the surface account of politics, and as a methodology – reconstituting reality from an extraordinary mass of detail. Robin Ramsay In this short […]
[…] Urban Faber and Faber London 1996 £16.99 The first sentence of Urban’s conclusion to this very interesting and rather important book is: ‘More than anything else, British intelligence is a system for repackaging information gathered by the USA.’ He might have added, ‘information gathered in large part at US bases in Britain’. Urban has […]
[…] known to be imperfect and not the only one available. An inability to offer a trustworthy ‘message’ has had particular impact on America and Britain’s Middle Eastern intelligence product because it has undermined its agents, especially ‘agents of influence’.(9) This is one of many reasons why, today, ‘the allies’ have no agents, cannot ‘sell’ […]
[…] affair. The other links her death to her anti-nuclear activities in the early 1980s. Both schools of thought have produced circumstantial evidence which suggests the involvement of intelligence and security services. This involvement is likely to have been at least one remove, through the use of private security firms, or other more secretive organisations, […]
[…] lines by deception and the non-payment of telephone bills. These false charges are the climax to a bizarre series of events. As a researcher in politics and intelligence I have many times been the target of various intelligence agencies. On two occasions I was asked indirectly to join, or co-operate with, the clan. I […]
As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending […]
John Deutch, the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was a panel member on the Interagency Group on Human Radiation Experiments, which was created on January 15 1994, under President Clinton’s order, directing government agencies to look into unethical experiments conducted during the Cold War. John Deutch was also a panel members of […]
[…] emerged in 1971 with the creation of Information Policy. In early 1972 the Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF) was created. Military chiefs wanted a unit to combine ‘ intelligence gathering’ with ‘aggressive patrolling’ within the Republican areas.(8) The SAS had been sent to Northern Ireland in 1969 (9), and by 1972, with the MRF, they […]
