[…] 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 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of […]
[PDF file]: […] is pretty good. 12 6 truth: Spooks, now and then Cryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their intelligence services for about 15 years.14 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers15 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 […]
[PDF file]: […] acquaintances, such as John Cairncross’.2 But whereas these accounts could be dismissed, effectively marginalised, as the work of the Party’s enemies, Andrews’ exploration of Klugmann’s involvement in intelligence work for the Soviets is absolutely conclusive. Andrews begins his biography with an account of Klugmann’s meeting with a Cambridge friend who was working at the […]
[PDF file]: Using the UK FOIA, part II Nick Must Why does the UK government not want me to know the names of attendees at two European intelligence meetings, which were hosted in London and that took place more than 65 years ago? It’s a question that really does need answering, particularly when one considers that […]
[PDF file]: […] I no longer anticipate having to get up from the sofa to answer the door to Jehovah’s Witnesses. But should I be nervous about becoming a police intelligence gathering service? An accompanying leaflet invites me to register my camera with . Here I learn You can register your CCTV cameras or video doorbells on […]
[PDF file]: […] United States on the Labour Party, the European Movement and British trade unions. In 1972 Richard Fletcher was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to investigate US intelligence activities at the time of Hugh Gaitskell, and when many questioned the funding source, among other things, of Encounter magazine which much favoured the Labour leader’s […]
[PDF file]: […] clear lines. Thus it was with – can I say this? – the anticipation of nostalgia that I began this account of the defection of the Polish intelligence officer Michal Goleniewski to the Americans in 1961 and the subsequent ramifications. I was not disappointed. Up to the mid-1950s the US intelligence services had gathered […]
[PDF file]: […] Islamic terrorist attacks in London. See my ‘MI5 speaks to the nation!’ in Lobster 79 at . 2 See, for instance, ‘The supposed superiority of the UK intelligence agencies is a myth’ by Mary Dejevsky for the Guardian in 2016 at or . 3 1 that he has been heavily promoting.4 This new creation […]
[PDF file]: […] it is still possible to navigate through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers […]
[PDF file]: […] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.26 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]
