[…] the parapolitics of the period in this country. But after that we are off into largely new areas, as Sanders takes us through the political, military and intelligence history of South Africa, through the fall of the apartheid regime and up to 2005. There are occasional familiar episodes – the South African involvement in […]
[…] system behaved far more rationally – better for the bottom line. They work very hard, attending sessions from dawn to nearly midnight, but expect the standards of intelligence and analysis to be the best available in the entire world. They are impatient. They have a hard time reconciling long term issues (global warming, AIDS […]
[…] 300 men. The mercenary group has its headquarters in the Channel Islands and also runs operations in London and Oman. (Sunday Times 24th June 1984). Mossad, Israeli Intelligence, are also involved setting up an intelligence organisation. This involved David Mantani who set up a ‘special interests section’ in the American Embassy. * * * […]
[…] of the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ Includes a detailed chronology of events relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis; images of Soviet missile installations and declassified documents: declassified intelligence reports, national security memoranda, cables, letters and summaries. CIA’s Historical Review Programwww.foia.ucia.gov/net_princeton.htm Analytic reports on the former Soviet Union produced by the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence […]
[…] operational sense, more is needed. Interview 1 March 1992. We know from Colin Wallace’s evidence that such a document haul would be thoroughly analysed by the state intelligence forces for potential psy-ops use. It would not take genius to work out that a copy of the letter would be used by Searchlight. Had Searchlight […]
[…] WIA reply. I sometimes had niggling doubts about Lundy’s defence that it was part of his job to mingle with the criminal fraternity in order to gain intelligence and develop his strategy of using informers. These are relatively minor doubts, though, since his record on convictions does look highly impressive. More suspect is his […]
[…] among key Ba’athist leaders. Saddam Hussein himself had long since retreated into writing novels. Well aware of weakness and despair in the Iraqi leadership, Western military and intelligence agencies prepared for invasion. When Saddam Hussein’s daughter Raghad Hussein requested his assistance in 2004, Al-Ani consulted an international team of lawyers that found the Iraqi […]
[…] late Lord Mountbatten, recycling the claims of some on the right that he was a Soviet agent (without any evidence) and there is this: ‘Many within British intelligence circles knew him as a visitor to Kincora, a boy’s home used by the paedophile and gay members of the Protestant Order , civil servants and […]
[…] ripped-off most of his money and destroyed his life, tossed him in prison. There he began to meet other victims, among whom are former US military and intelligence personnel who were involved in, or claim to have been involved in, the various intelligence scandals of the Reagan/Bush years: October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, the arming […]
[…] brief account of changes in economic policy, and, in particular, changes in the USA’s foreign policy, which followed LBJ’s take-over of the reins. The US military and intelligence helped install a bunch of dictators in Latin America, as well as stepping-up the war in S.E. Asia. (And, not mentioned by the author, closed the […]
