Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

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[PDF file]: […] history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, that operate on the fringes of state intelligence and security systems. Except in details, I have not attempted to update the essay, whose general thesis has been unfortunately only too corroborated by ensuing events. The assassins […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

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[PDF file]: […] directions, upwards and downwards. If a government seeks loyalty from the electorate, it must demonstrate that it acts with integrity: for example when members of its own Security Forces speak out about wrongdoing. It should not turn a blind eye when that is the expedient thing to do. The fact that the ‘Troubles’ actually […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

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[PDF file]: […] in the context of an even more striking espionage affair, the defection to Moscow in the summer of 1960 of Bernon Mitchell and William Martin, former National Security Agency (NSA) officials, both of whom had earlier served in different posts in Japan in the mid-1950s and at Atsugi in particular. As I will document, […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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[PDF file]: […] to the Cabinet Secretary. On 14 September 1989 the Cabinet Secretary held a meeting with senior representatives of the MOD, Northern Ireland Office (NIO), Home Office and Security Service (MI5) to consider the matter. The meeting noted that the MOD’s advice to Ministers in 1987 and 1988 had not taken account of certain material […]

View from Bridge

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[…] KGB.18 The second is the report on the JFK Assassination Debate site by Brigette Wilke that a 1958 Joesten book in German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency (NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.19 As the existence of the NSA was not revealed until the 1970s, […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] he was being badgered by Zelensky to prosecute Poroshenko, Ryaboshapka had found a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] he was being badgered by Zelensky to prosecute Poroshenko, Ryaboshapka had found a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] he was being badgered by Zelensky to prosecute Poroshenko, Ryaboshapka had found a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] he was being badgered by Zelensky to prosecute Poroshenko, Ryaboshapka had found a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

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[PDF file]: […] is a section of a much longer document written by a senior Canadian federal intelligence official named Gareth LLewellyn about the actions against him of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). This story is notable for his account of being ‘gang-stalked’ by CSIS. The whole document can be read at . (Yes, I […]

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