A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] 12/11/03; Asia Times, 5/20/04 Floridagate and then was made head of FEMA . the agency that with Cheney and Rumsfeld Mann, 139; Bamford, 72 had developed “Reagan’s Secret Coup Plans” “Reagan’s Secret Coup Plans” Progressive Review, July 1988 in the 1980s the plans for COG Continuity of Government the plans for an anti-constitutional takeover […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

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[PDF file]: […] of these services at the time in question. Names might be mentioned.’ He added that the DCI: ‘was also concerned about what would be said about the secret work very close to extreme Protestant organizations, and close therefore to some politicians. If these activities were to be revealed – through a leak if not […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] learned that Wallace was being expelled from Northern Ireland (and possibly faced disciplinary action for ‘leaking’) he wrote to a ‘Mr Joy’ in a letter headed ‘ Secret and personal’. This is part of what he said: ‘ . . . like the Brigadier, I considered Wallace the most valuable member of Army Information […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] claiming that Saddam thwarted and resisted international weapons inspectors in order to bluff the world into believing that he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

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[PDF file]: […] the most egregious case of U.S. war crimes by proxy’ and example of lawlessness in the post-war era. A veritable microcosm of the U.S. behemoth, Israel, a secret nuclear power, and funded (officially) an average of $3 billion annually by the U.S., has committed serial violations of the Geneva Conventions, the U.N. Charter, multiple […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

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[PDF file]: […] always a give-away and can be a pleasing indication of progress. So, for example, in Professor 123 Winter 2010 Jeffery’s reference work, MI6, the history of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 – 1949, there is an example of the huge lobbying pressure that the educator – a crucial spook role – would have been […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] . . In one of his (now deleted) YouTube pieces Professor Jeffrey Sachs mentioned a book about US covert action: Lindsey A. O’Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018). (Be warned: there are apparently free PDF copies of this available on-line, but my computer’s system flagged the sites […]

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