Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]

Ukrainian psyops

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[…] brought seven mobile crematoriums into Crimea to conceal troop losses and destroy evidence of Russian war crimes. Furthermore, they were operating under the control of Russian military intelligence. ‘Each of these crematoriums burns 8-10 bodies per day,’ Nalyvaichenko declared.2 The cremation of a corpse is not easy or trivial. Humans come in all shapes […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] version of events. (I give some examples from Operation Chiffon later in this review.) By making this massive compromise he gains access to the ‘secret world’ of intelligence, and is allowed to meet people who would not normally talk to reporters. The question of whether anything they have to say is true, seems to […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] new * Neon and day-glow guns ‘R’ us. Former NSA contractor Reality Winner1 is currently incarcerated pre-trial for alleged leaking to the press of details on American intelligence agencies investigations into foreign interference during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Much of the media coverage has included humorous references to Ms Winner’s claim that she […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 S omewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] sister of Max (a council member of Brian Crozier’s ISC and also with the Committee for the Free World). During WW2 Nora Beloff had worked for Political Intelligence at the Foreign Office, and her attacks on the extreme left of the Labour Party had the backing of David Astor.4 Michael Crick drew on Beloff, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of ‘Who struck John’ is mentioned in Peter Usowski, ‘The White House, Richard Helms, and Watergate: A Clash between Executive Power and Organizational Responsibility’ in Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 8 Quoted at and in David […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] of ‘Who struck John’ is mentioned in Peter Usowski, ‘The White House, Richard Helms, and Watergate: A Clash between Executive Power and Organizational Responsibility’ in Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 40 Quoted in David Talbot, Brothers: […]

View from

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[…] Leeden Michael Ledeen’s death in May this year produced a flurry of articles about him. Not discussed, in those I read, was Ledeen’s possible relationship with Israeli intelligence. Which is odd, really, for Israel’s interests run through his career as an interface between US state and non-state officials and Israel. Google AI gave me […]

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