[PDF file]: […] Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these ‘facilities as “lily pads”, or Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), and access to locations in Algeria, Botswana, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia.’2 Here we […]
[PDF file]: […] Ramsay have sought to unravel the events which took place at that time. They suggest that it was all part of a plan by elements within the security forces of the United Kingdom seeking to destabilise the Government of the day and to try to ensure the return of a Conservative Government with a […]
[PDF file]: […] moved in part by a sense of patriotism, but he certainly valued the political benefits of wrapping his shady business operations in the protective mantle of national security. An example was his service as vice chairman of the Navy League’s 71st anniversary dinner in 1975, honoring CIA Director William Colby and former chairman of […]
[PDF file]: […] the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its members are […]
[PDF file]: […] this article I will draw on historical and contemporary material to ask how this came about and, in particular, to look at the role of the energy security industry and private intelligence and military contractors in the preparation for war with Iran. Ridiculous as they were, the charges of an Iranian assassination plot on […]
[PDF file]: […] a combined entity with 1 2 , footnote 45 3 4 revenues in the range of $1bn’.5 Contributing to that impressive turnover was the contract of aviation security for all four international Airports in Afghanistan, signed between the Deputy Director General of the Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority and Guy Johnston of Olive Group.6 The […]
[…] Russian position, going all the way back to Gorbachev, which has been to oppose NATO expansion and call for a continent without blocs with its own, new security organisation and (after 1991/2) for a neutral Ukraine with its borders guaranteed by both Russia and the West. The evidence is all there to show that […]
[PDF file]: […] Russian position, going all the way back to Gorbachev, which has been to oppose NATO expansion and call for a continent without blocs with its own, new security organisation and (after 1991/2) for a neutral Ukraine with its borders guaranteed by both Russia and the West. The evidence is all there to show that […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘public interest’. ‘Exceptionally sensitive records containing information, the disclosure of which would not be in the public interest in that it would harm defence, international relations, national security (including the maintenance of law and order) or the economic interests of the UK and its dependent territories.’ Examples given of records to be closed for […]
[PDF file]: […] part 3 he uses previous interviews and articles to explain the interrelationships between the CIA business and the DEA business and how they led to the Homeland Security business. Part 4 is devoted to the various ways in which everything known from parts 1–3 are ignored, trivialised, distorted or censored so that such knowledge […]
