[…] for whom Britain is a main target?'(27) This campaign of dissent from the British security and intelligence establishment climaxed with the leaking of a request from the NSA for UK (GCHQ) help in bugging and surveilling the homes and offices of UN delegations to the Security Council. The leak, said Peter Beaumont and Gaby […]
[…] of Naval Intelligence. The majority of the group’s members are senior members of the AVIARY: Dr. Christopher Green (BLUEJAY) from the CIA (39); Harold Puthoff (OWL) ex- NSA; Dr Jack Verona (RAVEN) (DoD, one of the initiators of the DIA’s Sleeping Beauty project which aimed to achieve battlefield superiority using mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry); John […]
[…] subtitle is misleading: this is really a book about the CIA and its progenitors running back into the 19th century. There is almost nothing here about the NSA, DIA, NRO and all the rest of the alphabet soup of the post WW2 American intelligence community. The early material is the most interesting; and, to […]
[…] ‘the shah of Iran, for example, came to depend deeply on the U.S government’: for weapons, spooks, police, military and counter insurgency training and advice, intelligence from NSA etc. etc. Pipes continues, stuffing his other foot into his mouth. On the one hand: ‘Much of the region’s anti-Western, anti-Israel, anti-democratic, anti-moderate and anti-modern behavior […]
[…] losses resulting from interception activities were published by the US press – before Europe became concerned about the ECHELON system. See: ‘Germany, UK breaching human rights with NSA spy link-up’, Duncan Campbell, 27 May 2001, www.heise.de/tp/english/special/ech/7753/1.html; and Campbell’s reports to the ECHELON C’tee: ‘ECHELON and its role in COMINT’, Jan. 2001, www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/7747/1.html which summarises […]
[…] a conversation he had with the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) — in 1953. The director asked Lilly to brief the CIA, FBI, NSA and the various military intelligence services on his work using electrodes to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centres of the brain. Lilly refused, noting in […]
[…] Ball, D. The Ties That Bind, Allen and Unwin, London 1985, p178). Even sophisticated overhead intelligence platforms like Rhyolite have their limitations, principally those of payload. The NSA were also monitoring the TELINT associated with missile launches from Krasnoyarsk from their station in northern Iran, only a couple of hundred miles away (Bamford p198). […]
Thinking about the Falklands Paul Johnson recently sneered in The Times at the ‘conspiracy theories’ about the Falklands War held by the likes of Tam Dalyell MP. Reading this, what struck me was just how few conspiracy theories about that war have emerged in the past 3 years. So, here are a couple. Mine is […]
[…] this government (and the media) respond to the forthcoming John Schlesinger film of The Falcon and the Snowman (US 1979) by Robert Lindsey, in which the great NSA, whose secrets were supposedly at risk through contact with GCHQ, is portrayed as a ramshackle, drug-ridden shambles, with bored servicemen and civilian employees passing away the […]
[…] the pool; and we got more than enough mud already.(2) Knightsbridge news Mohamed Al-Fayed’s law suit – all 40 pages of it – against the CIA, DIA, NSA et al for denying him documents under the Freedom of Information Act which he believes they possess was posted on the Net on 1 September 2000.(3) […]
