[…] the European Fact-Checking Standards Network Project (EFCSN), a European Union (EU) funded project, civil society organisations have cooperated to establish voluntary guidelines for investigators conducting public-facing Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) work.11 In November 2023, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) launched the Defending Against Disinformation-Common Data Model (DAD-CDM) project, “a open […]
[…] page 178 Glenn Sample writes: During the research and investigation phase of this book I once had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community. He related to me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up […]
[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; […]
[PDF file]: […] Straw. Nor from Jonathan Powell, Downing Street chief of staff. Nor Alastair Campbell, Director of Communications. More importantly still, I have not discovered from either the Joint Intelligence Committee or the Secret Intelligence Service that the prime minister was misrepresenting their intelligence. This failure to challenge Mr Blair means that the Secret Intelligence Service […]
[PDF file]: […] a High Noon every Wednesday way into the silly season and beyond. Here are a few samples from the prosperous Tory loyalist, a trusted member of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee and a central figure in party life from his splendid Westminster pad for more than 30 years. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster […]
[PDF file]: […] Nowosielski, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the crimes of the war on terror (Hot Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5107-2136-4 44 9 range of senior US intelligence and law enforcement officials whose experience had led them to conclude that the threatened attacks could and should have been stopped long before September 11 2001. […]
[PDF file]: […] published every year. SIS gave up all pretence to being a secret agency when it had that flashy new building on the Thames constructed for it. Former intelligence chiefs and former officers are now regularly interviewed by broadcasters. They have been dragged out part of the way into the light and have discovered that […]
[…] no source. Barron – who died in 2005 – was the American equivalent of our Chapman Pincher: a man used to run stories for the security and intelligence people. So Mitrokhin’s co-author Professor Christopher Andrew has tarted-up Mitrohkin’s documents with something as crappy as an unsourced allegation in Barron. Dear oh dear. Moran’s essay […]
[…] the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.17 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich 16 or 17 5 Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment on […]
[…] the long, clunky headline in the Daily Mail on 7 December had it.17 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. 16 or 17 5 On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco […]
