Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] French government in exile in London. It went on to serve the post-liberation government of France before it became the ‘Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre- Espionage’ (SDECE) in April 1946. 45 46 Email to the author from Andrew Rosthorn, 13 May 2023. 18 Indeed, according to Charpier, Guerber was at this time […]

Peer group pressure

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[PDF file]: […] leave little to no trace. In essence, we do not exist before, during or after the event.’23 As two words simply say on their home page: Counter Espionage. Their corporate logo looks remarkably similar to Parliament’s portcullis, which may be considered unfortunate these days. Mackenzie would have been just another Labour peer lurking around […]

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[…] Israel officials Lord Pickles and Lord Polak: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ (Alan Duncan, In The Thick of It p. 61) Pickles and Ed Balls are co-chairs of the UK […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] was not exactly where the political Did we need the 22 pages the author devotes to Hunt’s biography? In it we learn a great deal about Hunt’s espionage novels and the fact that Hunt took the job with the White House because he needed to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term […]

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[…] Israel officials Lord Pickles and Lord Polak: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ (Alan Duncan, In The Thick of It p. 61) Pickles and Ed Balls are co-chairs of the UK […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

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[PDF file]: […] evangelist Pat Robertson’s Regent University. What the USA has ended up with is a President ‘beholden to Russia’. Frum describes Trump’s election as ‘the most successful foreign espionage attempt against the United States in the nation’s history’ (p. 134). His ‘deference to Putin reverberated through the western alliance’ (p. 155) and more generally, he […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

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[PDF file]: […] of the private company NSO and those of Unit 8200 is illustrated by a Unit 8200 cyber development called ‘Flame,’ described thus: . . . state-sponsored cyber espionage malware that circumvented anti-virus programs and remained undetected between two and five years. Aimed to map Iran’s computer networks and monitor computers of Iranian officials, it […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see note 2), esp. pp. 116-121; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia. A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988 (London: Routledge, 1989), ch. 10; and Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: the Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: 4th […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

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[PDF file]: […] The Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen Oyston Affair and pre-war Royal Navy espionage in Japan.

The book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

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[PDF file]: […] (‘Good Queen Bess’ according to the mainstream media of the day). It turns she was not only an instigator of the burning of witches. She deployed state-backed espionage and torture, including the use of paid informers and the interception of mail. She also murdered her sister and encouraged state piracy, plundering and the licensing […]

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