[…] there has been some big shift; and in a sense there has been. I am no longer collecting every scrap of information about the British intelligence and security services in the way that I did once. Why not? A number of things have come together. Firstly, it no longer seems as important. Other people […]
[PDF file]: The politics of in security Campbell Caig 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 quite entirely the result […]
[PDF file]: […] absent Latvian executives, Anita Lase, Yury Kachnov and Sergey Kostyrin, were found guilty of money laundering and ordered to serve sentences in a ‘penal colony with high security regime’.19 The Baltic Course news service in Riga described the Pervomaiski Criminal Court hearing as ‘Kyrgyz Government Exacts Its Revenge on Belokon’.20 Belokon’s defence In a […]
[PDF file]: […] capital letters, not mine), which remains, writes the author, ‘the single largest expulsion of intelligence officials by any country’. Heath later described it as ‘the most import security action ever taken by any Western government’. In which case, one wonders why the Soviet reaction was so muted, with little of the feared reprisals against […]
[…] 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 clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.17 […]
[PDF file]: Using the UK FOIA, part III Nick Must It seems that we will never know for certain who took part in the discussions at two meetings of the Western Union Clandestine Committee (WUCC) over 65 years ago. On 31 July I finally received notification from the First Tier Tribunal (which heard my appeal under the […]
[PDF file]: […] of the problem having created the political information market in the first place, controlling the cartel. Similar parallels vis-avis the state can be made with the private security industry and military consultancies. Allow one issue to unravel, they collapse into and collide with each other. 4 Sir John said: ‘The next five years will […]
[PDF file]: […] as Athenaeum sponsor): or 11 12 Daily Mail 28 October 2013 (more details on Savile and Franey’s Athenaeum meeting): or Charles Kaye and Alan Franey, Managing High Security Psychiatric Care, (Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 1998), p. 35 (Franey acknowledges meeting at Athenaeum) 13 See the final paragraph of the report in Guardian 1 November 2012 […]
[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like […]
