[…] I thought he would be likely to express them.”‘ In fact there is a quite an interesting account here, not only of the business of being an agent for SIS – presumably it is SIS, though other agencies are possible; and the author never quite resolves this – but also of the University of […]
[…] Subtle arguments can become telescoped into punchy summaries that are sometimes oversimplified. Webb is most controversial when implicating the CIA, relying heavily on slippery phrases like ‘CIA agent’. To him it is important that in December 1981 a ‘CIA agent’, Contra commander Enrique Bermudez, ‘had given the goddamned order’ to Meneses and Blandon to […]
[…] and the South Africans. Harold Wilson’s Cabinet Office is infiltrated. Rhodesian agents murder one of their own operatives who has turned against them in London, and another agent is killed by British intelligence after they and Special Branch monitor his activities. The agent, Geoff Dominy ….’ (emphasis added) Typical of Searchlight to make a […]
Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster 9 and … Read more
[…] as conventional ones, and the BLU-82 has been described as the nearest thing to a nuclear explosion. It would be an effective way of dispersing a chemical agent and destroying much of the evidence. (Why they would do this, given that the intention was to display a willingness to use chemical weapons against Iraq, […]
[…] at EARL. Records show that in 1971 the CIA provided EARL with $37,000 to test a classified glycolate compound, known only as EA3167. A potentially incapacitating psycho-chemical agent, EA3167 was tested on human subjects, including prisoners from Holmesburg Prison. One of the main objectives of the CIA in these tests were to synthesise radio-labeled […]
[…] Extreme Prejudice (London: Robinson, 2005) there are two pages about the late Lord Mountbatten, recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: ‘Many within British intelligence circles knew him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy’s home used by the paedophile […]
[…] make this abundantly clear. MI5’s First World War offshoot PMS2 is given only a cursory mention by Curry. There is no reference to its employment of the agent provocateur William Rickard, who in 1917 framed a family of socialists (the Wheeldons) on trumped-up charges of plotting to assassinate Lloyd George. The Zinoviev Letter is […]
[…] thus preventing him from giving evidence at the trail of unfortunate Libyans designated as the patsies. The same thing happened to Abraham Bolden, a black Secret Service agent who wanted to tell the Warren Commission about an apparent plot to kill JFK in early November 1963 in Chicago. The report said that they had […]
[…] the Germans; and the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the Sunday Telegraph, 27 February, 1994, said that Ames ‘recruited Soviet agents, ruthlessly betraying at least 10, knowing they would be […]
