[PDF file]: […] decision, because moving the Embassy had been a campaign promise. He took this decision in the face of the united opposition of the US foreign policy and security establishments. Both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary James Mattis warned that ‘all hell’s going to break loose’.1 According to Richard Mansbach, Trump made […]
[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]
[PDF file]: […] walked towards them. The smirking driver lowered his window. I asked him straight, ‘Why are you following me?’ ‘You’d better get used to it. We represent the Security Service. We know you work for the Mossad. If you’re caught doing stuff for them on British soil, you’ll be arrested.’17 The British were cracking down […]
[PDF file]: […] knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now dead, Rostow handed this dossier to the director of the LBJ Presidential Library, with a note recommending that […]
[PDF file]: […] country, but just down the road from the offices of the William Cohen Group in Washington DC where he works as ‘senior counsellor’ to the weapons and security consultants. Cohen was Robertson’s opposite number at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration.2 Reporting on the referendum for the BBC from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the […]
[PDF file]: […] soon disappeared as the fog of the Cold War set. (Note also these quantum developments in the speedy turn to global empire: the creation of the National Security State, 1947; Israel, 1948; and the Korean War, 1950). The crowning legal achievements formed in this new crucible, inter alia, were the U.N. Charter and Geneva […]
[PDF file]: […] 14 May they intercepted in the post a photostat copy of a letter from Hess. This was forwarded to a Group Captain Blackford, Director of Intelligence ( Security) RAF.55 None of these documents, letters or photostats can be found in official files today. Hess and Kirkpatrick spoke again on 15 May. Hess requested that […]
[PDF file]: […] thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that Belfrage has been leaking material to the Soviets on instruction from BSC (British Security Co-ordination). Simkins included this killer paragraph: ‘If Gordon Corea and the other journalists working on this story had carried out a simple search for “Cedric Belfrage” […]
[PDF file]: […] West – into satellite states with open doors for a combination of xenophobic politicians, dodgy businesses and Mafia bosses, all propped up by increasingly repressive military and security establishments looking to Moscow rather than Brussels and Washington. Putin, a former KGB officer unwilling and unable (it is said) to escape from the secretive and […]
[…] 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 […]
