[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.12 And the Foreign Affairs review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its […]
[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like […]
[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like […]
[PDF file]: […] from entering the United States. (p 82) And as time went on things got even rowdier and more threatening at his rallies, until ‘I now have private security at all of them. Everyone covering Trump at NBC is under armed protection’. (p. 190) Indeed, ‘Because of Trump’s war on the media, networks have required […]
[…] there is no source. Barron – who died in 2005 – was the American equivalent of our Chapman Pincher: a man used to run stories for the security and intelligence people. So Mitrokhin’s co-author Professor Christopher Andrew has tarted-up Mitrohkin’s documents with something as crappy as an unsourced allegation in Barron. Dear oh dear. […]
[PDF file]: […] 1951, a secret group named the Anti-Communist (Home) Committee was established, comprising representatives from the Foreign Office, Treasury, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour, and Security Service (MI5). Chaired by cabinet secretary Norman Brook, the committee’s objective was ‘to keep communist activities in this country under review and to recommend what counter-action […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘The drama of failed warnings began when Tenet and Black pitched a plan, in the spring of 2001, called “the Blue Sky paper” to Bush’s new national security team. It called for a covert CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat—”getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a […]
[…] memory. In fact Pelley offers what is close to proof that the Russians have developed a microwave weapon and are using it on US military, diplomatic and security personnel. Hundreds of them, in the US and abroad, have been attacked and disabled, some permanently. Which creates big problems. Diplomatically: is this an act of […]
[…] memory. In fact Pelley offers what is close to proof that the Russians have developed a microwave weapon and are using it on US military, diplomatic and security personnel. Hundreds of them, in the US and abroad, have been attacked and disabled, some permanently. Which creates big problems. Diplomatically: is this an act of […]
[PDF file]: […] issue. Much of this was interesting to me. For one thing, NFB has continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything […]
