[…] literature of recent years has begun to resemble the literature of parapolitics. Increasingly the story is of the activities of putative agents of state, the intelligence and security agencies, and alleged disinformation and smear campaigns. (On this see Jacques Vallee’s Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception, London, Souvenir Press, 1992.) A recent re-examination of […]
[…] state – will have to be defeated or reformed; and as the tales of being pepper-sprayed in this volume remind us, you can’t just by-pass the national security state. Before the language of globalisation, these issues were discussed in terms of multi- or trans-national capital – terms which appear very, very occasionally in this […]
[…] Diplomatic intercepts by GCHQ were also helpful to the US during the build-up to the 1972 Paris peace conference. President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, attached great importance to the mood of the North Vietnamese and the Hong Kong station’s information, which suggested that Hanoi was far from capitulating, led […]
Jim Mac Laughlin London: Pluto Press, 2001, £15.99/£45 Mac Laughlin’s book is a history of nation-building in Ireland. This overlaps with a study of Irish nationalism. The two things are not identical. Indeed, the tensions and differences between the two is one of his implicit themes. The book is not a rehash of various … Read more
[PDF file]: […] own investigative and public relations firm in 1954.7 Maheu used his relationship with other former federal agents to land his first regular client: the CIA’s Office of Security. That branch handled many of the Agency’s most sensitive and illegal operations, including drug testing and mind-control experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert […]
[PDF file]: […] I learnt of his consulting business, Global Counsel, and his membership of the Advisory Board of another business which many will not have heard of, the cyber security firm BlueVoyant. More on these later. As I surveyed the Register, I came across an interesting feature which Mandelson’s connection with a cyber security outfit suggested: […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
