[…] thesis – there was a switch – and has tried to trace the life of the ‘hidden’ Oswald. He appears to have established the existence of an intelligence operation which began with two boys, of different heights, but who looked similar and who lived parallel lives. One, Harvey, was Russian-speaking, probably a refugee from […]
[…] full support’ but warned against premature action liable to backfire. Meanwhile the CIA agents and their friends in Chile were to deploy ‘propaganda, black operations, surfacing of intelligence or disinformation, personal contacts, or anything else your imagination can conjure’ to secure the downfall of the Allende regime.(4) Of course Allende’s left-wing government, the first […]
[…] Who of the British Secret State. Though I cannot remember why Dorril thought this and though there is nothing specific in Ashdown’s known career which says ‘ intelligence’, the career move from Special Boat Squadron to Foreign Office is pretty obvious.(1) The alleged SIS affiliation seems to have stuck, however. The doyen of British […]
[…] released a list of 963 members – a list that shook the nation and lead to the collapse of the government and the wholesale replacement of military, intelligence and civil service personnel. The lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, a wealthy businessman who had fought with the Falange in Spain and then for the […]
[…] Glees, who wrote an interesting study of German Exile Politics in WW2 (Clarendon Press 1982) is shortly bringing out a book on Communist Subversion and British counter- intelligence 1939-45 (Jonathan Cape). Our view of that might be influenced by the fact that he has written for the new Encounter magazine. Michael Scammel, who has […]
• THE READER’S GUIDE TO INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS HAYDEN B. PEAKE – NIBC PRESS National Intelligence Book Center Washington DC THE READER’S GUIDE TO INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS 86 • LOBSTER – a journal of parapolitics T l1e provenance of LOBSTER is as unusu �l as its name. In 1982, Robin Ra1nsay and Stephen Dorr1l, h10 of […]
[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely […]
[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party […]
[…] In The Sunday Telegraph of 20 March he ran a piece, ‘Iran plans secret “nuclear university” to train scientists’, which was attributed to ‘reports received by Western intelligence’. Crazy wavies, right? Meanwhile, out there in the wonderful world of commercial science, the ability to do what mind control victims have been complaining of for […]
