[…] 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 […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] election.23 ‘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]: […] 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 […]
[…] election.23 ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘contacts in Czech intelligence’.(56) MI5’s pretext for this was the fact that Benn, while Minister of Technology, had been lunching with Czech diplomats, some of whom were intelligence officers under cover, and had not reported the contacts to his departmental MI5 officer.(57) But while Benn was the chief focus of the paranoid right’s conspiracy […]
[PDF file]: […] the course of this Harrison offers a variety of euphemisms: Mrs Thatcher ‘displayed formidable intellectual energy over a long period . . . Colleagues recognised a considerable intelligence of the specialised kind that a democratic politician needs’ (p. 208); had ‘an intelligence too firmly practical for the self-consciously intellectual to feel comfortable with it’ […]
