[…] neglected provenance in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. The crippling of the 455-foot USS Liberty, a SIGINT intelligence vessel run jointly by the US navy and the NSA, in a sustained two hour attack by Israeli bombers and torpedo craft at the height of the 1967 Middle East war, is still regarded as a […]
[…] stationed in the host country, and the Commanding General of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command; and where electronic surveillance is required, the co-operation of the NSA. I am assured that similar regulations are in place for the US Air Force and Navy. (What the CIA and NSA does in these areas seems […]
[…] subtitle is misleading: this is really a book about the CIA and its progenitors running back into the 19th century. There is almost nothing here about the NSA, DIA, NRO and all the rest of the alphabet soup of the post WW2 American intelligence community. The early material is the most interesting; and, to […]
[…] of Naval Intelligence. The majority of the group’s members are senior members of the AVIARY: Dr. Christopher Green (BLUEJAY) from the CIA (39); Harold Puthoff (OWL) ex- NSA; Dr Jack Verona (RAVEN) (DoD, one of the initiators of the DIA’s Sleeping Beauty project which aimed to achieve battlefield superiority using mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry); John […]
[…] losses resulting from interception activities were published by the US press – before Europe became concerned about the ECHELON system. See: ‘Germany, UK breaching human rights with NSA spy link-up’, Duncan Campbell, 27 May 2001, www.heise.de/tp/english/special/ech/7753/1.html; and Campbell’s reports to the ECHELON C’tee: ‘ECHELON and its role in COMINT’, Jan. 2001, www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/7747/1.html which summarises […]
[…] ‘the shah of Iran, for example, came to depend deeply on the U.S government’: for weapons, spooks, police, military and counter insurgency training and advice, intelligence from NSA etc. etc. Pipes continues, stuffing his other foot into his mouth. On the one hand: ‘Much of the region’s anti-Western, anti-Israel, anti-democratic, anti-moderate and anti-modern behavior […]
[…] a conversation he had with the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) — in 1953. The director asked Lilly to brief the CIA, FBI, NSA and the various military intelligence services on his work using electrodes to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centres of the brain. Lilly refused, noting in […]
[…] Ball, D. The Ties That Bind, Allen and Unwin, London 1985, p178). Even sophisticated overhead intelligence platforms like Rhyolite have their limitations, principally those of payload. The NSA were also monitoring the TELINT associated with missile launches from Krasnoyarsk from their station in northern Iran, only a couple of hundred miles away (Bamford p198). […]
Thinking about the Falklands Paul Johnson recently sneered in The Times at the ‘conspiracy theories’ about the Falklands War held by the likes of Tam Dalyell MP. Reading this, what struck me was just how few conspiracy theories about that war have emerged in the past 3 years. So, here are a couple. Mine is […]
[…] the pool; and we got more than enough mud already.(2) Knightsbridge news Mohamed Al-Fayed’s law suit – all 40 pages of it – against the CIA, DIA, NSA et al for denying him documents under the Freedom of Information Act which he believes they possess was posted on the Net on 1 September 2000.(3) […]
