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’ […]

Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] sad day for us all, but there is something to learn from and reflect on in terms of our humanitarian commitment and our willingness to re-engage with security.’ Two of the things ‘to learn’ from Blunkett’s references went unremarked by him, and they might just might have punctured some of the high-flown rhetoric from […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] member, Steven Carrillo, a serving USAF sergeant, carried out gun attacks in Oakland (29 May 2020) and in Santa Cruz County (6 June 2020), that left a security guard and a deputy sheriff dead and a number of others wounded. The suspicion was that the attacks were intended to be a kind of ‘false […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 1981, the powers-that-be thought it sufficiently dangerous to make it the only thing that was removed from a 1981 Panorama documentary, the first about British intelligence and security agencies. Now we know why. The list makes it clear that the people on the left who thought they were being surveilled and bugged in the […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] member, Steven Carrillo, a serving USAF sergeant, carried out gun attacks in Oakland (29 May 2020) and in Santa Cruz County (6 June 2020), that left a security guard and a deputy sheriff dead and a number of others wounded. The suspicion was that the attacks were intended to be a kind of ‘false […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] the armed forces superior to the civil power, given that it prevented Chilean presidents from appointing, promoting or dismissing senior military officers. It also established a National Security Council, whose brief extended to examination and evaluation of any development it thought likely to challenge ‘the bases of the institutional order or . . . […]

The Conspiracy and Democracy Project

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[PDF file]: […] practice undermines or impacts upon democracy. It might, for example, examine all the state conspiracies which now exist within this society; and since the armed forces, police, security and intelligence services (and the big corporations) are almost entirely unaccountable, such research would be entirely apt. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say […]

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[…] of a close working relationship with Bill Harvey. Well I found it on page 513, on a letterhead which says Bishop Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working […]

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[…] of a close working relationship with Bill Harvey. Well I found it on page 513, on a letterhead which says Bishop Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working […]

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