[PDF file]: […] Contingencies Unit the year before at Windscale; the ‘stay behind’ aspect was essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, […]
[PDF file]: […] the mistakes of history, you simply repeat them.’ 21 Enter the spooks On 3 February the American magazine Manufacturing and Technology News reported: ‘The Director for National Intelligence is undertaking a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the state of American manufacturing. Growing concern over loss of domestic capability and dependence on foreign nations 20 […]
[PDF file]: […] 9 Olaf’s father was apparently a Stasi officer,10 and it seems that Olaf was inspired to follow in his footsteps. As is the case with many other intelligence and security agencies, literal patronage was a preferential pathway for potential Stasi recruits. Perhaps the best-known instance of this structural nepotism is to be found in […]
[PDF file]: […] secretive —inner circle: Peter Rodman, Abe Shulsky, William Luti, and Paul Wolfowitz, who was probably the biggest war hawk at the Pentagon. This circle ran a special intelligence unit that undermined the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the CIA, and the State Department’s efforts to find links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, and to confirm that […]
[…] are the chances of there being anything significant about the assassination on official US paper anywhere? Assuming, for the sake of argument, that somewhere within the US intelligence community there is institutional knowledge of whodunit,4 we may also assume that nothing will be left on paper which points towards the assassination conspiracy (if anything […]
[PDF file]: […] piece is one of a number kept in CIA files and released as a result of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, established in 1975 and chaired by Senator Frank Church. It can be found on page 6 of the scanned documents available at . 13 4 […]
[…] in British politics’, as the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.36 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich 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 ‘laundromat’ in ‘Londongrad’ for Russian money and the consequent Russian influence on British political life. Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His […]
[…] and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Sloppy stuff from Covert Action ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Sloppy stuff from Covert Action ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it on: […]
