Murder in Cairo

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[…] Turki bin Faisal Al Saud had run Saudi intelligence from December 1977, ‘only weeks after Holden was assassinated’, until the prince ‘resigned as head of the Saudi secret service ten days before the 9/11 attacks’ in which 14 Saudis hijacked American airliners in a plan devised by the Saudi, Osama bin Laden. Prince Turki’s […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: […] early years and celebration of David Stirling’s genius. This was first published in 2016, with the additional statement that it was The Authorized Wartime History from the Secret SAS Archives. On the same evening, the BBC also put out all three episodes of the 2017 documentary series on the regiment, SAS: Rogue Warriors, also […]

Historical notes on the use of troops during the 1984-85 miners’ strike

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[PDF file]: […] is first hand, coming from a Yorkshire businessman called Peter Sanderson, who had been recruited into the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC), a paramilitary force within the British Secret State, in 1977. By 1984-85 the CCC was preoccupied with the frustration and defeat of the miners’ strike. Sanderson was still a member at that time […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

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[PDF file]: […] particular, certain past and serving officers of the intelligence fraternity – also deserve my sincere thanks for their advice and cooperation.’5 It now appears that the Israeli secret service the Mossad owes more than sincere thanks to John le Carré. 1 The Little Drummer Girl, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983). 2 Born David John […]

Historical Notes on troops and the miners’s strike

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[…] is first hand, coming from a Yorkshire businessman called Peter Sanderson, who had been recruited into the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC), a paramilitary force within the British Secret State, in 1977. By 1984-85 the CCC was preoccupied with the frustration and defeat of the miners’ strike. Sanderson was still a member at that time […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

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[PDF file]: […] this draconian isolation, disobeyed the governor’s decree and talked privately with Zangara at great length. He came to the conclusion that Zangara was ‘a member of a secret Italian terrorist organisation, similar to the Mafia, called Camorra’, and that the attempt to kill FDR was related to Camorra’s codes of vengeance. What happened next? […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] provena11ce of LOBSTER ,-vas provil..ied by Mr. Ramsay dt1ring a telephone conversation with thenutl1oron 12July 1989. 101.Stephcn Dorril is the co-author with Anthony Su1nn1ers of Honeytrnp: 11,e Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolso11, 1987). Dorril and Ran1say l1avc rece11tly E published, SMAR!: Wilson & tire Secret State (London: Fot1rtb Estate Lin11ted, […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

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[PDF file]: […] widely reported in the mainstream media in 2002, and conveniently forgotten, that the Pentagon’s Proactive, Pre-emptive Operations Group (P2OG) would purposefully provoke acts of terrorism.2 1 In Secret Affairs, former Chatham House Fellow Mark Curtis documents some of Britain’s longtime complicity – from funding, arming, training, and directing, to protecting from extradition – with […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] covert, funding for Encounter which came from the British Foreign Office. Then, in 1963 – and for reasons which are unclear – the Daily Telegraph exposed the secret funding but, after being leaned on, almost immediately withdrew the story.3 *new* The beast from the East I was reading a recent piece on Consortiumnews by […]

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