Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

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[PDF file]: […] London: MacMillan, 2019 Citizenseven ‘I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public’, claims former CIA employee and National Security Agency ( NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in the second sentence of recent memoir, Permanent Record. That this immodest claim is one of the opening lines tells us much about […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

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[PDF file]: […] of an even more striking espionage affair, the defection to Moscow in the summer of 1960 of Bernon Mitchell and William Martin, former National Security Agency ( NSA) officials, both of whom had earlier served in different posts in Japan in the mid-1950s and at Atsugi in particular. As I will document, the American […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of since. My guess would be that the Kennedys paid her to disappear.6 Well ye ken noo Slight stirrings in Parliament about the Snowdon revelations of the NSA/ GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[PDF file]: […] in this age of almost ubiquitous digital surveillance. Individuals leave digital traces everywhere they go with a smartphone and with every website they browse. Agencies like the NSA have extraordinary capacities to follow those traces and monitor our communications. The risk is not merely theoretical. The Washington Post reported that many NSA surveillance files […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

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[PDF file]: […] Andrew Gavin Marshall, for example, quotes the claims made in Loftus and Aarons’ The Secret War Against the Jews,103 that on 4 October the National Security Agency (NSA), which is responsible for signals intelligence collection, ‘knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that an attack on Israel would take place on the afternoon of […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] are and . 65 Ah, innocent days In a recent posting of more data from the Snowden documents, Glen Greenwald’s The Intercept included this extract from an NSA document. ‘A Perspective on the NSA/USUN Partnership SUMMARY The intelligence SID gave to the U.S. United Nations team (USUN) during the wind-up to the Iraq War […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of us want an easy life in which lots of the difficult stuff is done by others. Snowdenia The fact that less than 1% of Edward Snowden’s NSA documents have 34 15 Beyond hypocrisy That MJ12 material might rank as one of the most successful disinformation operations of recent times – that we have […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of us want an easy life in which lots of the difficult stuff is done by others. Snowdenia The fact that less than 1% of Edward Snowden’s NSA documents have been made public creates an opportunity for disinformation: ‘Snowden’s hitherto unseen documents reveal…..’. One prankster/disinformationist claimed that Snowden’s documents prove an extra-terrestrial-US government link,3 […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

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[PDF file]: […] to those who sought to exaggerate Russian interference in the 2016 election. However, a more serious case developed from the leaking of US National Security Agency ( NSA) hacking tools which fell into the wrong hands – known as the ‘Shadow Brokers’ – in 2016. US intelligence sources thought there was North Korean as […]

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[…] ‘Well, through my association with WikiLeaks, I know for sure that it was a leak and not a hack. As Bill Binney, former technical director of the NSA, has pointed out, were it actually a hack the NSA would be able to pinpoint it. In fact, there is no such evidence. This is not […]

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