[PDF file]: […] arrival of post invasion Iraqis – allowed the community, and its children in particular, to evolve quietly as more Iraqis rolled in. It was only in the intelligence sphere – which the majority of 1970s Iraqis were seeking to avoid – that it had high visibility. Some Iraqis were sought out by the SIS; […]
[PDF file]: […] Contingencies Unit the year before at Windscale; the ‘stay behind’ aspect was essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, […]
[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]
[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]
[PDF file]: […] by the disappearance of the boat’ – or so the FBI was told by the CIA, who in turn had received their information from the US Coastguard Intelligence Service. Since the ban on anti-Cuban covert action had been imposed by the US federal government and was being enforced through the State Department, the possibility […]
[PDF file]: […] Straw. Nor from Jonathan Powell, Downing Street chief of staff. Nor Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. More importantly still, I have not discovered from either the Joint Intelligence Committee or the Secret Intelligence Service that the prime minister was misrepresenting their intelligence. This failure to challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service […]
[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]
[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]
[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]
[…] the European Fact-Checking Standards Network Project (EFCSN), a European Union (EU) funded project, civil society organisations have cooperated to establish voluntary guidelines for investigators conducting public-facing Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) work.11 In November 2023, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) launched the Defending Against Disinformation-Common Data Model (DAD-CDM) project, “a open […]
