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 […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] so tragic, and as I read and reread the The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report I was struck by one of the key items contained in the Intelligence and Security Committee’s central questionnaire, which was never answered. It was to be found in point three out of a total of five principal issues to be addressed: […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[PDF file]: […] China, the last classical enemies were gone – but the war was not over. Carter’s ludicrous attempts to blame the Soviet Union for the war his national security advisor Brzezinski instigated and covertly funded in Afghanistan were largely a deadly distraction with no initial impact on the new ‘enemy’. Reagan’s attempts to portray Nicaragua […]
