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Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam after his capture.39 The Daily Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that ‘Saddam’s claim […]

Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials

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[PDF file]: […] allowing the prosecution to adduce certain evidence and, in particular, the evidence of an individual claimed by the defendants to have played the part of an ‘ agent provocateur.’ In addition the defendants proposed to seek leave to adduce fresh evidence to refute the proposition that the capacitors had been specially designed for use […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

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[PDF file]: […] Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one third genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until the time that he became too hawkish for his new employers. Most controversial, of course, is George […]

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