[…] revealing insights into the twists and turns of strategy and diplomacy within the western alliance. Examples are his articles on the 1962 cancellation of the US Skybolt missile which was supposed to become the centrepiece of the UK nuclear deterrent, or In the Red’s analysis of sterling’s problems, or Anatomy of Error (1969), which […]
Introduction There are a couple of interesting chapters in Chapman Pincher’s recent The Truth About Dirty Tricks, (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1991), especially the one about Harold Wilson’s ‘spymaster’, the late George Wigg; but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher’s primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic … Read more
James Carroll Boston: Houghton Mifflin; 2006, $30 h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: … Read more
[…] ‘Several sources have indicated that the Soviet activities around Greenham Common are a ‘near perfect’ example of Soviet preparations to deal with the GLCM (Ground Launched Cruise Missile) threat.’ Etc., etc. The story was absolute junk: no information, no sources; classic disinformation. Nonetheless, perhaps because of Jane’s general reputation, (and perhaps because Jane’s article […]
[…] produced, the full value of the survey was appreciated, as the comparisons showed up the new plants, installations and railway spurs of the Soviet nuclear weapons and missile effort. Young left Vienna in 1949 with the sense of a job well done – not the least of which had been welding into a competent […]
[…] Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1989-91 http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html http://www.odci.gov/csi/books/cubamis/book1.pdf A pdf version of a 1992 print book containing many declassified documents on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, including many important CIA documents on this event. National Security Archive The National Security Agency Declassified http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/index.html Electronic Briefing Book on the NSA’s foundation and […]
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine … Read more
[…] Pakistani military are keen to prove their innocence: on October 21st a senior Air Force officer, Air commodore Abbas Mirza, revealed that the investigation had ruled out missile attack or any structural fault on the C-130 Hercules, thus pointing to sabotage. (8) Any proof of foreign complicity in the crash will lead to questions […]
[…] is prepared to do – and also regards the process of actual analysis of overhead intelligence as a purely objective process, which the experience of the ‘ missile gap’ in the late 1950s contradicts. These objections made, if you can afford £14.95, the book is worth getting as it contains information available nowhere else […]
[…] This could be organised and executed by a small number of people. We could speculate further. Flight 77 didn’t hit the Pentagon, say many: it was a missile or a smaller plane. Yet on the Net there is a report by Christopher Kelly from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which begins: ‘What […]
