[PDF file]: […] judge from Northern Ireland, Brian Hutton. The inquiry was supposed to investigate the death of David Kelly, a government scientist who leaked details about the falsification of intelligence relating to Iraqi WMD, but whose death ended up being used instead as a vehicle for the Blair government to attack the BBC, who had reported […]
[PDF file]: […] was not so tragic, and as I read and reread the The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report I was struck by one of the key items contained in the Intelligence and Security Committee’s central questionnaire, which was never answered. It was to be found in point three out of a total of five principal issues to […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] an initial print run of 150. Its early credibility received a big boost in 1987 when Peter Wright’s Spycatcher was published and confirmed that elements within British Intelligence had been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a […]
[PDF file]: […] trying to modernise the country. He left Russia in 1912, working briefly in Berlin for The Standard. During the First World War he worked for British Military Intelligence, MI7 (along with A A Milne!) and he eventually ended up in Berlin working for the Daily Mail. In October 1923 he had the dubious honour […]
[PDF file]: […] successor, Sir Keir Starmer. Not only does he have an employee of the Israel lobby, Luke Akehurst, on the party’s National Executive Committee, he has former Israeli intelligence officer, Assaf Kaplan, on his social media team.23 The subsequent expulsion from Labour of Jewish members who do not support Israel has been a regular but […]
[…] of this journal, following the themes reflected in its pages; from CIA attempts to destabilise New Zealand, through the exploration of the influence of the security and intelligence services on British politics; the role of conspiracy theories; CIA, JFK; the failure of Labour and the rise of NuLab; and out into some of the […]
[PDF file]: […] JSOC had no time for any hearts and minds nonsense. It hunted down and captured or killed its targets, with those captured being interrogated to provide the intelligence for the next raid. JSOC operated its own prison in Iraq at Camp NAMA. According to Scahill, the CIA which ‘had inflicted more than its share […]
[…] least refer to the dissenters named in the preceding paragraph. This is a thousand pages long and will be of major interest to academic students of British intelligence and political history for years to come. Discounted from sellers like Amazon, this is a seriously good buy. But I’m not an academic and my interests […]
[PDF file]: […] and lobbying firm.43 Spooks and hacks W ill the time ever come when a British editor comes clean and tells us of his paper’s association with foreign intelligence services – or even British ones, come to that? Richard Keeble has surveyed some of what is known about such British links4 4 but nothing has […]
