[…] a decade later, he picked up a copy of Philip Agee’s CIA Diary and found an old friend of his and fellow activist named as a CIA agent. And: ‘Instantaneous sucked-in breath, a heart-rending cry of horror, I am literally propelled out of my seat and backwards two full meters……I stand there, staring at […]
Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate Attempts by intelligence and law enforcement to control new technologies Intelligence/law enforcement concerns Intelligence and law enforcement agencies world-wide have in recent years become concerned that more widespread use of advanced technologies, such as encryption, digital technologies and the Internet, will compromise their ability to fight crime and terrorism. … Read more
[…] the document were arguing that the Foreign Office should back the Canaris-German resistance-Vatican proposal. This report had to cross the desk of Kim Philby a Soviet agent before it could be officially circulated to Ministers. Philby duly rejected the document, thus blocking any formal discussion of a peace deal that would be […]
[…] links the UVF specifically to the murder of 23 year-old Sharon McKenna, in 1993 and implicates Mark Haddock, a UVF Commander who was also a Special Branch agent, in this killing. Haddock is currently on remand for charges arising from paramilitary activity and his unit is believed to have killed around a dozen people […]
[…] ‘act of conscience’ also, albeit accidentally, contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon, whose felonious minions had allowed CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and erstwhile FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy to burglarize confidential files from Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, in a slap-happy attempt to discredit the anti-War movement by showing that Ellsberg was mentally […]
[…] long piece, over 5,000 words, on Newton’s political career, Bateman’s account (and the errors allegedly therein) and why he did not believe Newton had been an MI5 agent. Very interesting indeed. But he attached a condition: print intact, unedited, or not at all. So I sent it back. (I didn’t want to materially change […]
The Last Investigation Gaeton Fonzi Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1993 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Peter Dale Scott University of California Press London and Berkeley, 1993 With Dick Russell’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, reviewed above by Alex Cox, these books are the best of the post Oliver Stone wave that … Read more
[…] bus stops. This contradiction helped the Crown to establish a link between a training mission in Lisbon by a certain Mr E, in 1979, and the KGB agent, Victor Oschenko, appointed as Michael’s controller. For those who live in Oporto the crosses may be easily placed in places of tourist interest. And if you […]
[…] the 1954-55 internal party battles ‘Dirty Work’, we get no idea just how murky this actually was. For example, we know that Gaitskell worked closely with National Agent Sara Barker, but we are told nothing on how she came by the detailed information on members she kept in her bulging files. Indeed, in the […]
[…] can be judged from John Buchan’s famous novel The Thirty Nine Steps, published in 1920. In the first chapter, set in early 1914, Colonel Scudder, the secret agent, explains that behind every major company in Europe is “a Jew in a wheelchair with eyes like a rattlesnake”, and that the cause of the coming […]
