[PDF file]: […] the professionals flew out that evening’. One South African security expert, whom Wrong interviewed, told her that the killing clearly demonstrated the influence of Mossad on Rwandan intelligence. The assassination ‘was standard Israeli MO’. The regime, of course, denied any involvement in Karegeya’s murder, but at the same time celebrated it and used it […]
[PDF file]: […] fire, they ‘cowered’ – as opposed to sheltering, which was what white men did. They ‘lounged’ a lot. Instead of shouting, they ‘hollered’. While Britain used ‘covert intelligence’, they ‘spied’ treacherously. Their attacks were ‘heartless’ and ‘cowardly’. They were addicted to ‘fighting, killing and treachery’, usually for lucre, or under the influence of ‘gat’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: ‘Damn you Keir Starmer’ Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza Peter Oborne London: OR Books, 2025, £11.99, p/b John Newsinger This is a tremendously powerful book, written with both a determined forensic intensity and a sometimes barely controlled outrage. Oborne, one feels, sometimes just cannot believe what is going on, the enormity of […]
[PDF file]: […] The so-called ‘colour revolutions’ in the former Soviet satellites are presented as unproblematic with no hint of covert US influence conveyed. The political weight of the military-industrial- intelligence complex in US domestic politics is not mentioned. But these are relatively minor details in the broad sweep of his narrative. In the end, after the […]
[PDF file]: […] had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the alarms triggered by the Able Archer exercise, which a lone Russian intelligence officer decided to ignore.1 Often these nuclear threats and alerts have been described as essential to US credibility. That magic word was also used in 2008, […]
[PDF file]: […] later I received a reply (on 1 See . plain A4 paper, signed with a wiggly line with no name beneath it) informing me that the Secret Intelligence Service has not disposed of human remains in the last 15 years. Encouraged, I wrote again, this time asking for the release of the Service’s internal […]
[PDF file]: […] another’. But, like the TV shows, the end product is easy to digest and, in this case, does provide some information on the operation of the German intelligence network in America in the late 30s and early 40s when the US was neutral, and may have stayed so had the Japanese not attacked Pearl […]
