[…] which point it gets very complicated for, thanks to John Armstrong’s research, it seems very likely that there were two ‘Oswalds’ and that some kind of elaborate intelligence operation was being run with them. This was Armstrong’s view in 1997: ‘In the early 1950s an intelligence operation was underway that involved two teenage boys: […]
[…] 1943 the Office of Alien Property (Tesla’s next of kin was a Yugoslav citizen — i.e. an alien national), assisted by the FBI, the ONI and Military Intelligence – quite a crowd, really, to fit into a small apartment – took the 80 crates into ‘Government’ custody. The following month they were unpacked and […]
[…] (UK) £25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book – perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch’s British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been one of the continuing threads of British […]
[…] area by country of origin and courses attended. A parallel area of training that we know even less about is the training of foreign Special Branch and intelligence agents. Security training is arranged through the Metropolitan Special Branch and MI5. Courses are also run by the Defence Intelligence Staff at Ashford, Kent. SAVAK agents […]
[…] money from Kuwait into the Tory Party. (The Kuwaiti Investment Office is one of the major property owners in London.) With hindsight Among the books about British intelligence operations I, Kovaks by Leslie Aspin (London: Everest Books, 1975) was never taken terribly seriously. This was partly because there were fewer spook-wise journalists at that […]
[…] works closely with a network of publications in other countries that frequently carry Soviet disinformation themes, particularly directed against the CIA. These are: Lobster in Great Britain; Intelligence Newsletter, formerly Intelligence/Parapolitics, in France; and Covert Action Information Bulletin in the United States.’ — p. 34 of Romerstein’s Soviet Agents of Influence, Centre for Intelligence […]
6. Peter John Caselton – SA agent sentenced to four years for raids on London offices of various black organisations. Bertl Wedin, former Swedish military intelligence officer, found not guilty. Caselton worked with professional burglar, Edward Aspinall, through Isle of Man front co. Africa Aviation Consultants (G 12th April 1983). Details of court proceedings […]
[…] country. Unfortunately this ‘cock-up’ version of the Falklands War conspicuously fails to encompass two items: the existence of oil deposits around the islands, and the so-called ‘ intelligence failure.’ The Falklands-and-oil story can be traced quite easily through the annual index of The Times newspaper which is in every reference library. Start around 1977 […]
[…] to reconstruct for researchers a historical narrative based on non-existent and authentic documents supported by published facts with classic disinformation techniques in what is termed in counter- intelligence parlance as “gray” intelligence. The question of whether they are genuine, authentic or real is not the issue here. The important point to keep in mind, […]
CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a […]
