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War on Terror Inc. by Solomon Hughes
[PDF file]: […] will be the decision by the American state – with its British chum tagging along behind, as per usual – to privatise much of its military and intelligence services; essentially to surrender its monopoly on the use of violence for political ends. Why did the US and UK military and intelligence agencies, qua agencies, […]
Newton on Keynes
[…] wealthy since the late 1950s.33 In the British case it was given a helping hand by elements embedded within the state, notably the military and security and intelligence agencies, reluctant to embrace the end of Empire.34 Using allies in the press, politics and higher education, these forces have fought a war for the accumulation […]
Using the UK FOIA
[PDF file]: […] This is because disclosure of the withheld information would breach the principle that the UK government does not release the names of officials from its own external intelligence agency, and by extension, those of allied intelligence services. Consequently, the 1 FCO has argued that it would seriously compromise such cooperation and thus prejudice the […]
Political life in Britain
[…] way he has fascinating stories to tell about John Addey, James Sherwood, Joseph Godson, the Gang of Four and many more. He also had experiences of the intelligence services worth reading. This is not an academic work, though academics could learn much from it. Nor is it just a collection of anecdotes from a […]
More on Hess
[PDF file]: […] that Hess was lured into his flight by British agents. This dates to the 1956 publication of the memoirs of Walter Schellenberg chief of the Sicherheitsdienst political intelligence for the SS. His memoirs were written after his conviction by a US military court at Nuremberg for conspiracy to murder Soviet prisoners of war. Schellenberg […]
The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony
[PDF file]: […] or a seascape, engaged in propaganda? He also goes on to describe Orwell as ‘an anti-Stalinist socialist whose work has been appropriated by . . . British intelligence operatives’. The first part of this is undoubtedly true. Orwell, however, was not ‘appropriated’ by British intelligence services. He willingly cooperated with them, particularly in passing […]
Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess
A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso
[PDF file]: […] the trilateralist framework to establish a more united front against Third World radicalism and greater détente with the Soviets. The ‘Prussians’, in contrast, consisting of ‘military officers, intelligence operatives, Cold War intellectuals, arms producers, and some domestic capitalists’, opposed détente and pursued a more militarist approach to Third World radicalism.11 Other contributions to this […]
The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine
[PDF file]: […] stylistic point of view it is highly appropriate to focus on MacArthur also because of the coincidence of their first names. William Colby (1920-1996) Director of Central Intelligence, i.e. head of the CIA (1973-1976) Prior to that he had served as chief of the Far East Division and Chief of Station in Vietnam, with […]