The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the attacks, while ignoring an oil rich ally which had everything to do with them. The justification for war is based on some witches’ brew of faulty intelligence, concocted intelligence and ignored good intelligence. Decent people are forced to lie on an international stage. All sensible advice is ignored and rabid neo-con draft dodgers […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

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[PDF file]: […] Conservative Attorney General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee? Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] brother, Salem, was flying down to Florida to publicise a Sarasota school’s reading programme.2 In another DC hotel on September 11 the director general of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), General Mahmood Ahmed, was having breakfast with Senator Bob Splitting some of these long URLs to fit the footnote space may produce problems. If the […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] London. Later, Wynne tries to give the £50 to his controllers but they tell him to keep it for himself. It can be safely assumed that British intelligence had the environs of the Soviet Embassy under photographic surveillance and MI6 could have used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

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[PDF file]: […] has the people and the relationships for SIS to recover. (‘We work with over 200 partner services around the world 1 Sir John defined his products. No intelligence chief does this because they change according to local markets and conditions. 120 Winter 2010 with hugely constructive results.’) PR distraction In the meantime, non-spook colleagues […]

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[…] or brain image indications to explain those widely varied symptoms. The JAMA findings 6 or Simon Matthews spotted this. 7 4 follow the 2023 release of an intelligence community assessment that found that the injuries were not the result of foreign attacks. More likely, the assessment suggested, they were tied to previous injuries, stress, […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

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[PDF file]: […] the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such a “speedy” manner as to render them unrecognisable’.4In his position as head of counter terrorism, Sir Andrew would have been the person one […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

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[PDF file]: […] 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and alongside heightened reforms in Guatemala caused a ‘general uneasiness within the Truman administration,’ 9 leading to increased ‘thin’ intelligence gathering.1 0 The duck test N o matter how thin the evidence was, reports of the possibility of Communism in Guatemala continued. Richard Patterson Jr., Truman’s […]

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[…] of pilots meeting UFOs. Where this all going – your speculation would be as good as mine. It does appear that sections of the US military and intelligence community (and their Soviet/Russian equivalents, as reported by Doty) have been sitting on the big story: homo sapiens is not the only intelligent life form in […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

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[PDF file]: […] to Aid Finland, Lord Balfour of Burleigh (Chairman of Lloyds Bank); the Earl of Lytton (Chairman of London Associated Electricity); Sir George MacDonogh (Former Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office and President of Federation of British Industries 1933-1934) and Lord Nuffield. Both the Borenius and Ramsay missions took place after the UK […]

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