[PDF file]: Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid London: Profile Books, 2020, 513 pp, £10.99 Colin Challen The dissemination of disinformation is as old as the hills, and now, thanks to the Internet, its transformation from the analogue age to the digital has given it what Rid explains as a post-modernist […]
[PDF file]: […] all. The idea of slowly developing your own deterrent, as and when funds are available (the approach followed by France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran(?)) doesn’t appear to have been entertained, with a radical short-termism preferred instead. countries, and, the death penalty is no longer in force.8 However, social attitudes are […]
[PDF file]: […] This is all being organised by al-Qaeda, and, moreover, ‘it has recently been reported’, that this invasion ‘may be’ being carried out in alliance with Venezuela and Iran. Rubin puts forward a plan for how to defeat this attempted Muslim takeover. Among his recommendations are an immediate ban on all Muslim immigration into the […]
[PDF file]: Conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts THEY KNEW How a Culture of Conspiracy keeps America Complacent Sarah Kendzior New York: Flatiron Books 2022 John Newsinger Sarah Kendzior is one of the most interesting commentators writing about contemporary America. Her two previous books, The View from Flyover Country (2018) and Hiding in Plain Sight (2020), are essential […]
[PDF file]: […] “put an office at disposal”. He also boasts of “dealings with the secret services of many other countries including France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Iran, Argentina, Chile and Taiwan”. As early as p. 20 it is hard to avoid concluding that Crozier is describing how he was recruited by MI6; and […]
[PDF file]: Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the killing […]
[PDF file]: […] set on the Finnish front in the 40s. See the page ‘Tex Sallee and the Reynolds Chinese Expedition’ at or 6 1967. Reynold’s B-26 ended up in Iran in the mid 70s, where it was impounded after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Much of the above is culled from the internet, and the internet […]
[PDF file]: […] worked there before he went into intelligence, as had Kermit Roosevelt’s grandfather. (5) (Kermit Roosevelt, who is perhaps best known for his role in the coup in Iran) went round America’s largest corporations asking, “Are you patriotic?”, raising money for the CIA front companies and securing the use of their trusts and foundations. (6) […]
Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the killing […]
[PDF file]: […] at best. We are told that Saddam Hussein ‘ rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, […]
