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[…] safe refuge in the United States after “World War II”. Not only did they “find refuge” but they went on to found such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, DARPA and a host of other secret organizations in the United States. If you dig even deeper you will learn that it was in […]

Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn

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[PDF file]: […] ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather than explicit: the apparent failure of American and British intelligence. I have to write ‘apparent’ because, with the exception of the invasion of Iraq, where we have seen glimpses of the intelligence and may get more […]

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[…] safe refuge in the United States after “World War II”. Not only did they “find refuge” but they went on to found such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, DARPA and a host of other secret organizations in the United States. If you dig even deeper you will learn that it was in […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from an ‘apocalyptic cyber attack’).8 BlueVoyant’s Executive Chair is Thomas Glocer, a former CEO of Reuters and a director of Morgan Stanley, 9 a director of K2 Intelligence and the Atlantic Council, amongst other things. Chief Operating Officer of Bluevoyant is Jim Penrose who worked in the National Security Agency (NSA) for 17 years, […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] Morgan and Nelson, loyal to the crown, who would reaffirm England as a world power, wipe out the shame of the Burgess-Maclean defections, and reestablish the Secret Intelligence Service as the most dangerous Secret Service . . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the American model of politics. If you copy America, you get America The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] in the foreseeable future must be close to zero. UFOs and the USAF So we now have a parade of former US Air Force (USAF) and US intelligence personnel telling the world that yes, the UFO thing is real – even commonplace – for the US military but it has all been covered-up for […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent of Kenneth de Courcy.8 Like du Berrier, de Courcy had some interesting early experiences in politics/ intelligence and parlayed this into a subscription-based newsletter which purported to show the world as it really is. De Courcy had interesting snippets but wasn’t reliable as […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] Morgan and Nelson, loyal to the crown, who would reaffirm England as a world power, wipe out the shame of the Burgess-Maclean defections, and reestablish the Secret Intelligence Service as the most dangerous Secret Service . . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Journalism, shows that in 2010: If you copy America, you get America. The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. […]

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