[PDF file]: […] Central Asia, “The ties between politics and the petroleum business have become much easier to recognize. President Bush’s special envoy to Afghanistan and member of the National Security Council, Zalmay Khalilzad, had previously worked for Unocal on an elaborate risk analysis for the Afghan pipeline.”’ p. 88 ‘Was the Syrian civil war a pipeline […]
[PDF file]: […] US Senate ruled such funding illegal. Israel supplied the weapons and Reagan’s Central American friends got the dosh. Kimche, working with his old friend and key Reagan security adviser Michael Ledeen, was the brains behind the scheme, leaving former US marine Colonel Oliver North as the fall guy when the whole covert operation was […]
[PDF file]: […] here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on Stonehouse held by the former Czech intelligence service (Státní Bezpečnost, State Security, generally referred to as the StB) which come to opposing conclusions. Actually even ‘using much of the same material’ can’t be stated with certainty, because Hayes […]
[PDF file]: […] allies in Europe and the nature of the viper at the bosom (the US). The analogy that comes to mind is leaving the frying pan for the security of the fire. Narcissism Grey mentions the grandiosity and super confidence of Brexiteers, the irrationality of many of their ideas, and their lack of definition of […]
[PDF file]: […] of the nation’s cities, capital punishment had long been abolished and marriage was open to gays as well as heterosexuals. These changes, along with an economic in security compounded by the financial crash of 2007-9, led many Conservative voters to seek lost certainties and find in them a refuge from an unpredictable and capricious […]
[PDF file]: […] there. On the day of the assassination, Elena Garro de Paz, the primary source of the story, was whisked away to the Hotel Vermont by a Mexican security officer Manuel Calvillo, who kept her incommunicado for a week ‘for her own protection’. In contrast, Sylvia Duran was twice arrested and violently interrogated by Mexican […]
[PDF file]: […] headline in Lobster only because Howard and I had been invited by the BBC, one afternoon in Leeds in 2011, to hear the former director-general of the Security Service , Eliza Manningham-Buller, giving a Reith lecture on security. When I commented that twenty News of the World journos had already admitted phone hacking but […]
[PDF file]: […] but had been refused permission from ‘on-high’. Lee felt his efforts to follow the international trails of the British LSD underground were being frustrated by an ‘establishment’/ security services ‘cover-up’. Lee’s book, Operation Julie: How the Undercover Police Team Smashed the World’s Greatest Drugs Ring, was published in 1978. Events the following year seemed […]
[…] shooter must have been or 9 10 11 Thomas T. Noguchi, M.D., Coroner to the Stars (London: Corgi, 1984) 12 3 the late Thane Cesar, a temporary security guard who was standing behind RFK.13 It was Cesar’s clip-on tie which RFK pulled off before he collapsed. Finkelstein knows nothing about the event and here’s […]
[PDF file]: […] especially during its war in Vietnam. The core concepts upon which what has been called a ‘revolution factory’ are based can be found in Sharp’s book National Security through Civilian-based Defense (Omaha, Nebraska: Association for Transarmament Studies, 1970). Of course to understand Sharp’s exercise in reverse engineering it is helpful to read Douglas Valentine, […]
