The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

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[PDF file]: […] h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the shadows. But in Norton-Taylor’s highly believable account, the British media is nearly always accommodating if not weak before the influence […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] in history’ as its manifesto. 1 At . 2 The Gow memorandum can be read at . 1 reformatted late 2023 Eringer claims to have created an intelligence agency for Prince Albert and is the author of Ruse, which recounts his years working undercover missions for the FBI. Those with longer memories will recall […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his candidacy against former Senator Hillary Clinton.2 Trump appears to be surviving even apparently calculated leaks by hostile U.S. intelligence officials of unsubstantiated reports that Russian spies ‘tried to blackmail him with sex tapes’ that showed him cavorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.3 Books […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] career in Florida took off in earnest. By a strange twist of fate, these two eminent and wellconnected Floridians were in place at the top of Washington’s intelligence oversight hierarchy when Atta and co. flew into the twin towers: Goss as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (since 1997) and Graham as Chairman of […]

The CIA as Organised Crime How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] concludes by saying that the means for acting on the information presented is already precluded — preempted rather than prohibited. The book’s principal subject is the Central Intelligence Agency. It may be useful to recall that the Central Intelligence Agency is an organisation of the US regime created by the National Security Act of […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

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[PDF file]: […] the Information Research Department (IRD) – part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – and approval for such activities was given by the Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence at the Northern Ireland Office. Moreover, an internal MI5 memo, dated 22 February 1990, and addressed to MI5’s Legal Adviser, Bernard Sheldon (copied to the MI5 […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] once of Bletchley and later Master of St John’s College, Cambridge – asked Hastings, ‘that in peacetime the best brains of our society wasted their lives in intelligence?’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, another brainy historian seconded to intelligence work in the war, memorably compared the old lags in MI6 to a ‘colony of coots in an […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

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[PDF file]: […] found his temperament suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published […]

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