[…] 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 […]
[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: […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] election.10 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims on the grounds they had a history of lying and they had failed to provide any evidence. The second line of attack was to […]
[PDF file]: […] MI6 officer Mark Allen. This culminated publicly in the rapprochement symbolised by Gadaffi and Prime Minister Blair embracing in 2004; and privately in the British security and intelligence services helping to send back anti-Gadaffi activists (one from the 1996 group paid by MI6) to their Libyan equivalents for torture.3 As part of the fallout […]
[PDF file]: […] the UK.1 Dee served in the RAF from 1953 to 1958, spending much of this time in the Middle East, culminating in his being attached to RAF Intelligence in Baghdad in 1957-1958. This was a critical period that saw the UK humiliated by the USA during the Suez crisis in late 1956. At its […]
[PDF file]: […] by Ian Fleming, foreign manager of Kemsley Newspapers between 1945 and 1959. Suspicion eventually centred on Donald McCormick, a part-timer who had worked with Fleming in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New […]
[PDF file]: […] point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a long litany of evidence pointing to systemic criminality to wage war beneath the usual verbiage […]
[PDF file]: […] arrival of post invasion Iraqis – allowed the community, and its children in particular, to evolve quietly as more Iraqis rolled in. It was only in the intelligence sphere – which the majority of 1970s Iraqis were seeking to avoid – that it had high visibility. Some Iraqis were sought out by the SIS; […]
[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]
