[PDF file]: […] he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam after his capture.39 The Daily Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that ‘Saddam’s claim […]
[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]
[PDF file]: […] mass destruction’ lies as examples of Leftist dishonesty. The vector for this contamination was apparently Dominic Cummings, a man much influenced by the example of the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had […]
[…] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]
[…] dropped. Millions dead and often permanent environmental damage was done to health and livelihoods as ‘19 million gallons of toxic herbicides’, and indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange were unleashed on Vietnam. The infamous Phoenix Program of assassination and terror with an estimated 70,000 Vietnamese deaths replete with sadistic torture chambers. Whole populations […]
[PDF file]: […] Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg Gordievsky. Murder in Cairo p. 371 2 2 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate the Middle […]
[PDF file]: […] many in the Pakistan military were very strongly supportive of al-Qaeda.4 6 We know, for example, from the work of Peter Lance that at least one double agent, Ali Mohammed, was close to senior figures within al-Qaeda and the US. We also know that British-born Sheikh Saeed, who, according to former Pakistan president Pervez […]
[PDF file]: […] in old age. As well as believing that Hollis was a Soviet mole, like James Angleton of the CIA, Wright believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent. They believed this because a Soviet defector Golitsyn suggested that he was. There is a puzzle here, for Tate reminds us that Harold Macmillan had Downing […]
