In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

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[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 […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[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 […]

Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less

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[PDF file]: Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less Roderick Russell Dr. Arthur Porter, the former chair of Canada’s spy watchdog, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), is in prison in Panama awaiting extradition to Canada where he faces multiple charges that include allegations of bribe taking, money laundering and conspiracy. Two […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

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[PDF file]: […] O’Brien’s office.” “We tap them, they tap us, it’s routine,” he said.’ (p. 188) It is surprising that a former senior CIA officer, whose speciality had been security, let something like this ‘slip’. More support for the Copeland thesis quoted above, perhaps. But the author shows that at least one other member of the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] KGB.18 The second is the report on the JFK Assassination Debate site by Brigette Wilke that a 1958 Joesten book in German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency (NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.19 As the existence of the NSA was not revealed until the 1970s, […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

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[PDF file]: […] was bed-hopping between the president and Sam Giancana. But given what we now know about the contemporary CIA’s engagement with the Mafia, it’s equally plausible that National Security concerns were involved. 7 potential leak of the Sullivan dossier might inspire in him with the 1964 presidential election looming. If it came to light that […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

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[PDF file]: […] while Blair was in office.4 The author shows the British state in full obstruction and evasion mode before the SFO inquiry was killed by Blair, citing ‘ security’ issues, after he was leaned on by the Saudis. Gilby is rather positive about the American experience. Other estimates are less sanguine and I will need […]

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

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[…] first World War officials of the U.S. government have encouraged conspiracy theories, sometimes inadvertently, sometimes intentionally. They have engaged in conspiracies and used the cloak of national security to hide their actions from the American people. With cool calculation, they have promoted official conspiracy theories, sometimes demonstrably false ones, their own purposes…..If antigovernment conspiracy […]

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[…] KGB.18 The second is the report on the JFK Assassination Debate site by Brigette Wilke that a 1958 Joesten book in German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency (NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.19 As the existence of the NSA was not revealed until the 1970s, […]

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