[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Who let the dogs out? Alpha Dogs How political spin became a global business James Harding London: Atlantic Books, 2008, £9.99 Reviewed by ‘Consultant’ In early 2006, a Nepali citizen was kidnapped by Maoist rebels. He had been carrying out opinion surveys on behalf of (pollster) Stan Greenberg’s US firm, to find […]
[…] blocked the appointment by threatening to resign. As far as he was concerned, Patel was totally unfit and unqualified. Similarly, when Patel was considered for a top CIA job, Gina Haspel, the Director of the Agency, threatened to resign if Trump went ahead. And then once he was appointed to the NSC, Patel had […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘These are the people we support.’ Fletcher gamely reproduced the piece in a mock ‘Not The Sunday Times’ format under the title ‘The Labour Party and the CIA: Who are They Travelling With?’, and sold it to political activists around the country.1 6 The piece was republished in 16 The text can be read […]
[PDF file]: […] activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have gone so far as to suggest the entire CIA should be privatised.4 One of the few books on the subject of privatised intelligence, Tim Shorrock’s 2008 Spies for Hire, made it very clear that the […]
[PDF file]: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark London: Allen Lane, 2012, £30 (h/b); Penguin, 2013, £10.99 (p/b) T here are many things that can be done while one is asleep. Bellini wrote a delightful opera about somnambulism. However it is difficult to share the same sense of fascination or repose even […]
[PDF file]: […] warned in advance of the Watergate burglary and let it happen, before arresting ‘the plumbers’. Even if, as is speculated here, that policeman was linked to the CIA in some way, this is not setting them up.1 The book is interesting chiefly as a firsthand account of a career agent/agent provocateur for the American […]
[PDF file]: […] African causes. He is now a London-based businessman and is a former Liberal Democrat councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. He co-authored British Intelligence and Covert Action and KGB/CIA, Global Intelligence: The World’s Secret Services Today and was also a co-author of three chapters in the collection Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa.
[PDF file]: […] the Watcher? Redux Permanent Record Edward Snowden 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the true size of an economy? For clarity, on a purely statistical basis, the data collected by the IMF, the UN, the World Bank and even the CIA is worth looking at in some detail. This shows that the UK is the 21st largest country in the world in terms of population. But GDP […]
[PDF file]: […] by Guerber into running the story? Fourthly, Guerber was a respected journalist with well-placed sources. Andrew Rosthorn informs me that A serious book by Frederic Charpier (La CIA en France – 60 ans d’ingérence dans les affaires françaises, Paris, Seuil, 2008) on sixty years of CIA interference in France . . . cites an […]
