[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 […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[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 […]
[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, […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
