Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] have been part of the original plan.) To my knowledge there is no information on how ‘the line’ was handed down, and by whom, within the national security establishment. We do know that a CIA media asset, journalist Joe Alsop, was given the task of persuading new president Johnson to abandon his proposed Texas […]

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[…] revealed on 7 December, in the UK and the USA, that ‘Russia “targeted hundreds of MPs, civil servants and academics in eight-year hacking campaign”: Spies working for security agency FSB “snooped on private emails and conversations in sustained attempt to interfere in British politics”’ as the long, clunky headline in the Daily Mail on […]

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[…] is the substantial political underpinning to the government’s assault on the NUM. For the previous 20 years or so a lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable […]

Eliot Higgins and the Ukrainian hoax, redux

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[PDF file]: […] usually everything continues to work correctly. We accept all comments and wishes regarding the panoramas published by our company, but we will do everything only after the security restrictions imposed on the military aggression of the Russian state are lifted on the territory of Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!6 The second appendix to this essay […]

Book reviews

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[…] middle-class “public servant” consensus Schumpeter had praised in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942). It could expand the numbers involved, square its own interests, and exit into relative security. ‘Mastering the system involved privileging the already privileged, as the Farepak episode showed, confirming its inegalitarianism and long-term untenability. In 2008 as much as during the […]

The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

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[PDF file]: […] doggedly to extradite the autistic IT expert Gary McKinnon to the United States. In 2001, McKinnon had gained access to US military databases, exploiting their surprisingly weak security systems to find information about UFOs.’ McKinnon never disclosed his findings to the public, but the embarrassed US government still indicted him for a potential 70-year […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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Contents America’s Cold War The politics of in security Campbell Craig and Frederick Logevall Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2009 Robin Ramsay In this two history professors, one British (Craig, Aberystwyth), the other American (Logevall, Cornell) examine the American end of the Cold War and conclude that it was almost but not […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

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[PDF file]: […] Units, however, were a much larger scale operation than either Section D or Section VII. Any such large-scale effort within the UK border by one of the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist […]

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