[…] ever profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about […]
[…] though they do not conform to the elaborate and often bizarre scenarios concocted by conspiracy theorists. How, indeed, could it be otherwise in a world full of intelligence agencies, national security bureaucracies, clandestine revolutionary organizations, economic pressure groups, secret societies with hidden political agendas, and the like? No monolithic conspiracy There has never been, […]
[…] on the bombing of Earth First’s Judi Bari; Kenn Thomas on attempts to get Timothy Leary’s FBI file via the FOIA; a disinformation operation by South African intelligence (the non-existent FAPLA); a memoir of radical politics in the mid-West of the 1930s; interview with Flatland editor Jim Martin; plus new books and the Flatland […]
[…] the OSS during the war, working closely with James Angleton. He had also worked with Meyer Lansky on Operation Underworld, the Mob’s first contact with the US intelligence community. Peter Dale Scott describes White in Deep Politics and the Death of JFK as ‘part of the “inner circle”‘, one of those who liaised between […]
[…] I.R.A. as paid gunmen and saboteurs. Until now the few Americans involved have served mainly as instructors and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – […]
[…] general election against then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and has since become Rector of the University of Dundee. Once the use of torture in the production of intelligence became an issue parliamentarians could no longer ignore, Murray hoped he would be called to give evidence to the Joint Human Rights Committee investigating precisely that […]
[…] facts about Information Policy: it was perceived as partly an MI6 operation. Hence the hostility to Wallace shown by MI5 when it got overall control of the intelligence set-up in Northern Ireland. Rubbishing Wallace Since what has now become ‘the Wallace Affair’ broke again at the end of January, all the major disinformation lines […]
[…] World War. A proportion of this was paid over to the Perons by Bormann in exchange for being allowed entry into the country. In 1954, when Israeli intelligence agents seeking out Nazi war criminals became aware of the gold’s existence, it was swiftly transferred to the Philippines. Why the Philippines was chosen is not […]
[…] to the bottom of a subject as complex as this simply by appointing a judge and a couple of bright lawyers. You would need a large team, intelligence personnel with access to everything and Prime Ministerial power to sack people for non-cooperation or obstruction, and expert guidance from some of the participants. And none […]
[…] society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; the growth of federal law enforcement agencies and their intelligence gathering; the growth of private, political intelligence gathering from McCarthy to the ADL network blown in the 1990s; And much more, all done in a couple […]
