The view from the bridge

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[…] War’ section of the Enigma History page at Crypto Museum . 55 ‘The captured Enigma machines ended up in the vaults of CG&GS (now: GCHQ) and the NSA, or were given to other countries with the message that they could not be broken.’ Bugs The New York Review of Books ran an interesting piece […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

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[PDF file]: […] often very complex legal mechanisms intended to conceal such control. 5 simply part of the national security state – never mind what Mr Snowden says about the NSA. It may not be possible in our lifetimes – or ever – to reorganise human society so as to be freed of these sociopaths and the […]

Spookaroonie!

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[PDF file]: […] wouldn’t it? But what precisely is being denied here? No MI5 people were involved in the surveillance of Wilson. OK, surveillance is not MI5’s job: GCHQ or NSA would do that (almost certainly the latter). And no MI5 people had been involved in ‘any attempt to destabilise the government’. But burglary, leaking official material, […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] director of K2 Intelligence and the Atlantic Council, amongst other things. Chief Operating Officer of Bluevoyant is Jim Penrose who worked in the National Security Agency ( NSA) for 17 years, and with a business called Darktrace (on whose Advisory Board sits crossbench Lord Evans of Weardale, KCB, former head of MI5).10 Mr Penrose’s […]

Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

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[…] p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] Chennault and the Nixon team were doing but decided not to blow the whistle during the election campaign – possibly because the main source on this was NSA intercepts which he didn’t want to reveal. Although we have known about this in outline for a while, Sullivan recounts these events in enormous detail in […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

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[PDF file]: […] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]

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[…] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]

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[…] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] never heard of ACSI before the assassination, but in his 2002 book Intelligence Wars Thomas Powers relates how he met former ACSI and National Security Agency ( NSA) commander General William Odom at a party for retired CIA officer Haviland Smith. Over cocktails Powers asked General Odom what brought him together with Haviland Smith, […]

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