[…] Turner’s account of these events, in his memoir Secrecy and Democracy. (2) On pp.193-205 Turner says the following. The CIA cuts were in what he calls ‘the espionage branch’, otherwise known as the Directorate of Operations. Under DCI George Bush this ‘espionage branch’ had been studied and a reduction of 1350 positions over five […]
The spectre of technofascism haunts the democratic nations. All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators. Substantial evidence exists linking members of the American intelligence community — including the Central […]
[…] of the real problems: over the years ‘intelligence’ has come to be defined by separate ‘products’ such as weapons inspection, which have a predetermined objective, when ‘good’ espionage can be exclusive, but is holistic, never singular. Other obfuscation includes the threat to government, including spooks, posed by ‘do-it-yourself’ diplomacy and/or justice: e.g. the campaigns […]
[…] which occurred on 22 February 1948. (23) The charges against him are alternately listed as adultery and polygamy, or — according to one ‘official’ UC source — espionage; (24) but in any case he was incarcerated at Hung-nam prison camp until being freed by advancing United Nations troops on 14 October 1950. He then […]
[…] or putting them behind bars. This article certainly explains why Special Branch were involved with the investigation of the case, though at the time the specter of espionage was never raised. It may be argued that the Special Branch came in as a matter of routine because two of those involved were in the […]
[…] RV is not operationally useful (bad enough but also dismissing the many hits in the oper-ational, non-experimental efforts with RV). Given the low reliability of so many espionage methods and sources, one would have expected them to be delighted with 15% over chance. Obviously, the conclusions were dictated in advance of the evaluation study […]
Morris Riley, writer on espionage and occasional Lobster contributor, died around 16 June 2001. I never entirely trusted Morris: he gossiped to me about things he should have kept to himself and for the most part I blanked his questions about Lobster and the people I was talking to. Under a pseudonym Morris wrote […]
[…] communism, Labour Party history, Thatcherism, science and society including nuclear issues, censorship and freedom of speech and of the printed word, feminism, radical working-class authors, human thought, espionage, guerrilla warfare, parapolitics, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, and so on. To match Ronald’s extraordinary knowledge, Hammersmith Books had an unrivalled stock of out-of-print […]
[…] due to post Cold War complacency which, apparently, blunted the cutting edge of British spy work. This is another nonsense since it implies that British Cold War espionage was excellent, when this was not always the case. Back to Sir Richard: ‘……. he (Spedding) recognised it was important to reinforce SIS’s reputation for professionalism […]
[…] idea and well worth pursuing. I thought it was very badly produced, editorially. The subjects that Sebastian (8) picked were so bloody irrelevant. He was obsessed with espionage, so there was an espionage story every other week.’ (9) Michael Grade, for whom I retain a certain affection and who, as the highly-paid chief executive […]
