[PDF file]: […] wealthy since the late 1950s.34 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.35 Using allies in the press, politics and higher education, these forces have fought a war for the accumulation […]
[PDF file]: […] military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show diplomatic staff being asked to gather ‘biometric’ data, as if they were low level intelligence assets. Digital security simply isn’t possible. In two years Ministry of Defence staff lost 340 laptops.1 The simple but uncomfortable truth is that to be secure, […]
[PDF file]: […] short notice as it was deemed too serious a topic for the ‘family friendly’ Wogan. Captain Hayward’s book mentioned nothing at all about his service in 14 Intelligence Company. No doubt, rightly or wrongly, he felt abandoned by the British state (which he had protected by sanitising what could have been a much juicier […]
[PDF file]: […] in parliament from Dale Campbell-Savours MP and a meeting of senior civil servants in the office of Home Secretary Alun Michael. Campbell-Savours, a member of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, complained to Cumbria police that he was being harassed by dozens of strange telephone calls, apparently generated by a computer in Florida. He […]
[PDF file]: […] be familiar: in the 1970s Northern Ireland’s state forces – the police (RUC), the military (UDR) and military reservists, almost exclusively Protestant – shared personnel, weapons and intelligence with the Loyalist (Protestant) paramilitaries. And so when those paramilitaries began killing Catholics – because they were Catholics, not because they were Republicans; sectarian not political […]
[…] that Lehane names. Lehane was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to go and study in the USA and discovered that the Harkness scheme is a front for an intelligence recruitment operation. Bright young things (though not so young in Lehane’s case) go the States where the CIA can give them a look over and recruit […]
[PDF file]: […] Back: The American working class in the 1930s (London: Bookmarks, 2012) p. 119. See also footnote 382. By the winter of 1934, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Nazi intelligence agency, was congratulating itself on the fact that ‘the Zionists had gained the upper hand over the CV and Jewish veterans’. There was still a fear, […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘The US Army built a bunker in Ancon Hill in the Quarry Heights section of Panama City. It was used by US Southern Command, and included an intelligence centre. Other underground bases include tunnels at two antiaircraft posts and a bunker at Gordo Hill between Paraiso and Gamboa which were built during the Second […]
[PDF file]: […] military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – […]
[…] summarise here, and 167 Summer 2010 they have been debated hotly before Horne even got to them. What seems incontestable is Horne’s finding that the National Photo Intelligence Center in Washington received the Zapruder film from a CIA lab at Kodak in Rochester, and that the anonymous ‘Bill Smith’ who delivered it said it […]
