[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] for all European countries to adopt laws that criminalise Holocaust denial, to create clearer definitions of constitutes racism and antisemitisim, and to oblige governments to pay for security at synagogues and Jewish schools. Writing in The Times today, Mr Blair and Moshe Kantor, a Russian-born Jewish philanthropist and businessman, say that Europe is at […]
[PDF file]: […] that on 24 June 2016 he was the speaker ‘at the annual meeting of Le Cercle’ which he goes on to describe as ‘a long-standing, slightly crazy security conference which I have been going to for years’. (p. 44) He tells the meeting (none of the other attendees are named) how difficult and politically […]
[PDF file]: […] and came to the conclusion that the resulting corruption was what ‘was driving people to violent revolt in Afghanistan’. Eventually she went to work for the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) where she was one of a number of people arguing that corruption was fuelling the insurgency and that combating it was a […]
[PDF file]: […] the ordeal. It would, in fact, have been curious if Martin McGuinness had been present during any such questioning, which was the responsibility of the IRA’s ‘Internal Security Unit’ (informally known as ‘The Nutting Squad’). And Duddy might have thought he was lucky to survive but the British government’s agent in the Internal Security […]
