[PDF file]: […] through which future funding could be channelled and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain […]
[PDF file]: […] that bedevil the US Deep State. The FBI realised it had simply blundered across an officially-sanctioned disinformation project and that it was in the interests of national security to keep it under wraps. The long and the short of which is that the ‘burned memo’ cites documents that have been comprehensively debunked by everyone […]
[PDF file]: […] timetable for 2002-3 was dictated almost solely by the exigencies of Rumsfeld/Cheney war planning (and the congressional mid-term elections), rather than imminent Iraqi threat. Many seasoned national security heavyweights from previous US administrations – Brent Scocroft, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger – had dismissed administration claims of a dramatic rise in threat level,4 hence the […]
[PDF file]: […] Frank. Ms Frank, who spied in Germany for the Israeli secret service in her youth, says that MI5 arranged for her to be jailed at the high- security Cookham Wood prison in Kent where she was to conduct negotiations with Mrs Elizabeth Forsyth, Asil Nadir’s private banker. Mrs Forsyth, born into the McAlpine family, […]
[PDF file]: […] rate – MI6 officer Mark Allen. This culminated publicly in the rapprochement symbolised by Gadaffi and Prime Minister Blair embracing in 2004; and privately in the British security and intelligence services helping to send back anti-Gadaffi activists (one from the 1996 group paid by MI6) to their Libyan equivalents for torture.3 As part of […]
[PDF file]: […] the journal Partisan Review: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald and Irving Howe. As Rodden makes clear, none of these men were any sort of threat to US national security and yet the FBI put considerable effort into keeping them under surveillance. Lionel Trilling had an active file from the late 1930s through to the mid-1960s. […]
[PDF file]: […] to stop it. Wright is rubbished repeatedly by Andrew and he does not refer to this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two […]
[PDF file]: […] of manifest destiny sought to resolve this contradiction by stipulating that domestic conquest was not imperial. Control of the Western hemisphere has always been defined as national security, not of asserting US domination. Likewise, it is impossible to understand the actions of the US government in Asia since 1910 without acknowledging that the US […]
[PDF file]: […] exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio 5 Live […]
[PDF file]: […] 2011. 37 The latest example at time of writing being or . 38 See or 39 See or 40 Whose personnel got caught in country by Venezuelan security forces. See, for example, or . 41 42 employee of the American government, with a quarter of a century of service, has been sentenced to more […]
