Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

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[PDF file]: […] the IRS, and even a high-powered private eye service, which at the same time was investigating Maheu on behalf of the Hughes organization. The CIA’s Office of Security assigned sixteen agents to surveil Anderson’s every move, in blatant violation of the agency’s charter.James McCord—recently retired from the CIA’s Office of Security to become the […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

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[PDF file]: […] KGB officer.’ p. 170 For reporting of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 Security Committee’s 2020 report Russia analysed the creation of the ‘laundromat’ in London for the washing of dodgy money.3 That report noted: The money was also invested […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] round State Research and the Leveller, and individuals like Duncan Campbell and Tony Bunyan, had worked out for themselves that Mrs Thatcher was the candidate of the security state. That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue to begin operations against the left and peace movement merely confirms another belief […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] from the secret unity of its ruling elites. Furthermore, this governing stratum – known variously as the ‘Power Elite’,1 ‘The Eastern Establishment’,2 ‘Insiders’3 the ‘Shadow Government’,4 ‘National Security 1 2 3 or 4 1 State’,5 and more recently, the ‘Deep State’6 – are not only the real powerholders in the country, but are united […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

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[PDF file]: […] and the prospects and the opportunities. It was that we didn’t understand that there needed to be a model, a very different prospectus in terms of that security, that feeling of community.’’ ’ And here’s the author’s description of Johnson’s arrival for the 2021 byelection in the constituency of Blunkett’s one-time Cabinet colleague, Peter […]

View from the bridge

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[…] BfV. The indexes state the real name and codename of each spy. In the 1990s, they enabled the foreign intelligence network of the HVA and the Stasi’s security departments to be uncovered. They enabled the size of or 13 And the figure is not a mistake. He repeats it elsewhere on Quora: ‘Now in […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

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[PDF file]: […] tasks available to them also at that time’.6 (Tasks that were, please note, ‘available to them’ and not, presumably, pressingly in need of attention.) Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) also raised concerns about record keeping by MI5 in connection to the 7/7 bombings. In paragraphs 171 & 172 and paragraph 283 of the […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

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[PDF file]: […] companies ‘were now in their element, sabotaging left-wing regimes as readily as they propped upright-wing dictatorships’. By the time Thatcher left office, ‘Britain had a well-established private security industry’ that would eventually give birth to the likes of G4S. (p. 8) KMS was one of the path-breakers in helping create this new political world. […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

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[PDF file]: […] Noon every Wednesday way into the silly season and beyond. Here are a few samples from the prosperous Tory loyalist, a trusted member of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee and a central figure in party life from his splendid Westminster pad for more than 30 years. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ‘lunatic self-seeking’ […]

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