Lobster review: The Reader’s Guide to Intelligence Periodicals (1992)
A review of Lobster in The reader’s guide to intelligence periodicals, by Hayden B. Peake. Loan copy available here.
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Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?
[…] combination of the lack of a security service with a corrupt police force left the Fijian government with little chance of learning about the activities of foreign intelligence services in Fiji. Which possibly ‘kinda delighted’ the CIA. The situation at the moment is that with the Fijian Council of Chiefs (a traditionalist body) permanently […]
The British Right
[…] MA; Professor of Politics and Comparative Ideologies, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Dr Alan Sabrosky PhD MA The Duke of St Albans OBE Former Colonel in Intelligence T F Utley CBE Dr M H Waring PhD MA (Brazil) Norris McWhirter Now in charge of the resources generated by Guinness Book of Records, McWhirter […]
The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair
[…] deal with corruption and ineptitude. In their mission, they operate with minimal democratic accountability as their trans-national operations bring them into ever closer association with security and intelligence services with whom they increasingly share the same ideology of global threat. They are, in short, constructing the basis for the new European, indeed ‘Western’, Security […]
Tail piece
[…] member of the American Psychological Association’s taskforce on psychologists’ involvement in interrogations and she’s recently gone public about some of the confidential discussions with the military and intelligence people involved in the taskforce ……. ’(1) But there are other Arrigos; Jean Maria is one of three sisters. There is a Dr. Sue Arrigo, who […]
The gentleman in velvet
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counter intelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the […]
PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation
[…] evidence, though I do intend pursuing it further. Obviously such a shadowy company is open to all kinds of theories. It could have been used for economic intelligence, as suggested by Shaw. Equally, it could have been used to finance politicians. But where is the evidence for any of that? If there is such […]
The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US-European Relations (Part I)
[…] would be the key figure in arranging the formation of the CCF, and he is a good example of someone who moved easily between intellectual, political, and intelligence circles.(32) He came to prominence through his single-handed disruption of the German Writers Congress held in East Berlin in October 1947 by complaining about the lack […]
Historical Notes: Anglo-American Conflict? UK becomes a US intelligence target
[…] told me the story himself very shortly after it had all happened (I was researching a doctorate at Birmingham at the time). The UK becomes a US intelligence target Of course the old undercurrents of distrust did not go away after the foundation of the wartime Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. There is an interesting snippet […]
Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation
[…] text. In 1984 Crozier wrote to the Spectator attacking IPS director Richard Barnet (a former Kennedy aide) and accusing the IPS of being ‘a front for Cuban intelligence, itself controlled by the KGB’. Barnet sued, the litigation reaching a climax in 1986 when Crozier lost a key court battle to prevent the Spectator retracting. […]