[PDF file]: […] certain Eastern Europeans e.g. Rudi Sternberg. (89) 4. Anxieties about possible Labour policies towards Rhodesia and South Africa. 5. Fears that Labour would alienate the CIA and NSA upon whom the British intelligence services depended for much of their technical expertise and some finance. 28 Thanks to Pincher, we have most of this from […]
[…] did by e-mail a couple of years ago with The Occupied Times which I had forgotten about.8 In it I noticed this comment: ‘And GCHQ and the NSA are recording and analysing every form of electronic emission from baby monitors upwards.’ Which is to say: thank you Mr Snowden for shoving the details into […]
[PDF file]: […] Woodworth, 9/11 Unmasked: An international review panel investigation (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2018) ISBN-13:978-1-62371-974-6 43 John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the crimes of the war on terror (Hot Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5107-2136-4 44 9 range of senior US intelligence and law enforcement officials whose experience […]
[PDF file]: […] Mitchell and – as revealed in Lobster 77 – Bobby Ray Inman, then a Vice Admiral. Inman was later appointed director of the National Security Agency ( NSA) by President Carter himself. Approached for comment on this story, Jimmy Carter initially dodged the issue with an irrelevant response. He subsequently declined to comment when […]
[PDF file]: […] many striking phrases. On the opening page he refers to the American major media as presstitutes – a nice joke, though he didn’t coin the word. The NSA is the ‘National Stasi Agency’, another nice joke but not really justified: the Stasi were the secret police, more akin to the FBI; the NSA is […]
[PDF file]: […] recently there was no (public) evidence showing Russian, let alone Russian state involvement.125 The closest we have got to evidence is a piece at The Intercept, ‘Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election’ and a report in the Washington Post recounting the Obama administration’s response to receiving a CIA report […]
[PDF file]: […] It was a leak not a hack.6 Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has been saying a similar thing. McGovern’s had several conversations with senior people at the NSA. They assured him that, had the Russians been responsible for any such a hack the NSA would have detected it; but, as they didn’t detect anything, […]
[PDF file]: […] justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. . . .’ These are the Operation Northwoods documents which were included in James Bamford’s book Body of Secrets on the NSA a couple of years later and have become a staple of the parapolitical canon. Curious that such a startling revelation had to wait until 9/11 to […]
[PDF file]: […] it. It could refer to the indiscriminate trawling of private communications which is at the root of the current controversy over Edward Snowden’s revelations, with the American NSA and Britain’s GCHQ now notoriously in cahoots. It could also cover the question of accountability, and the fact that none of us was told – and […]
[PDF file]: […] 1974), chapter 4, ‘The Charity Game’. 5 39 Juan de Onis, ‘Ramparts Says CIA Received Student Report’, New York Times, February 16, 1967; ‘Will Pull Out of NSA, Oberlin Chapter Warns’, Beacon Journal, February 19, 1967; Caspar Nannes, ‘Council of Churches Admits Aid from Probed Groups’, Washington Star, February 21, 1967; Orr Kelly, ‘CIA […]
