[PDF file]: […] . 2 Peter Blaker was a ‘former diplomat’ who served in Thatcher cabinets and would later, due to ‘knowledge of defence, foreign policy and the world of intelligence’ be ‘the only Lords member of the Intelligence and Security Committee’. See or 3 1 abundantly clear that the author, Andrew Rosthorn, is intricately familiar with […]
[PDF file]: […] seen as either a challenge or a prerequisite for obtaining accurate data on the history of political and economic events. Yet at the same time high government intelligence officials have said that their policy is one of ‘plausible deniability’. Official US government policy for example is never to acknowledge or deny the presence of […]
[PDF file]: […] love and peace Instrumental in the creation of a permanent war system – true to Orwell’s predictions, always called ‘peace’ – was the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency. Although officially the purpose of the CIA was to coordinate all the national intelligence activities for the executive branch of the US regime, this begs […]
[PDF file]: […] Goldman Sachs. The privatisation of public money in the West is thus more or less complete.’ 3 Fixing facts, faking history I think that the phrase ‘the intelligence and the facts were being fixed round the policy’, which was in the 2002 memo from Matthew Rycroft to a section of those managing the UK’s […]
[…] the Balkans. In 2008, over Russia’s urgent and strenuous objections, the U.S. pledged to expand NATO to Georgia and Ukraine. In 2011, the U.S. tasked the Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya in order to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi. In 2014, the U.S. conspired […]
[…] Horse Guards Road , you’re likely to find that everyone but you is an investment banker!’ 3 Fixing facts, faking history I think that the phrase ‘the intelligence and the facts were being fixed round the policy’, which was in the 2002 memo from Matthew Rycroft to a section of those managing the UK’s […]
[…] 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: […]
[…] 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 […]
[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, […]
[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: […]
