[…] CSCW, Oslo, 26 May 2004. Michael Hershman was the co-founder of Transparency International and the chair of Decision Strategies/Fairfax International, now one of the biggest private investigation, security and business intelligence companies in the US. According to his biography he ‘began his career in intelligence and investigations in Europe during the late 1960’s as […]
[…] down to this: ‘Today Cathy Massiter continues to live in East Sussex, having escaped unscathed after a series of disclosures about the performance and operations of the Security Service which led to litigation before the European Court.’ And rather than quoting from her affidavits, or from the various tv programmes she appeared on, absurdly […]
[…] – has been researching Kennedy and the space programme. He has written: ‘John F. Kennedy’s lasting desire regarding the manned lunar landing program is recorded in National Security Action Memoranda 271 (a document kept secret for almost twenty years) in which he boldly called for the development of a program of substantial co-operation with […]
[…] be only the tip of an iceberg whose full extent would reveal a very considerable network, or networks, of bankers, industrialists, landowners, service officers, members of the security and intelligence establishment, and politicians. Some of these were genuinely pro-Nazi, many more were committed to Anglo-German detente so that the wealth of the country would […]
[…] operations, of murder and mayhem, and narrow escapes. Certainly this reflected a romantic streak in his intellectual make-up, but it also represented a belief that sometimes the security of the Empire required the services of adventurers who were not bound by conventional rules, men who could undertake the dirty, deniable, work best carried out […]
Russell Holden Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, hb, £47.50 The author is an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘reforms’ of the Labour Party and a Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His thesis is that the changes in Labour’s policy from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s … Read more
Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre Nashville (US):Nelson, 2005, Distributed in the UK by New Holland Publishers, London, at £14.99, h/b RFIDs are acoming. RFIDs are radio frequency identification or identifiers, little chips which can be fixed to, implanted in, built into almost anything from paper money to human beings; and which can then be … Read more
[…] real world, right-wing millionaire Hart is currently listed as a director of no less than twelve companies, one of which is intriguingly called the Centre for International Security and Strategic Analysis Limited. Formed in March 2003, I’ve yet to find out anything more about it. Neocon news Peter Bergen carries out a substantial demolition […]
[…] Sanders, ‘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 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 […]
