[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its […]
[…] 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’ […]
[…] the smear was something concocted years before in Northern Ireland for which Wilkinson was just the mesenger boy. (Being the conduit for the nonsense from military and intelligence agencies was one of his roles.) When this was demonstrated to Channel Four’s management, Wilkinson lost his gig as ITN’s ‘consultant’ on terrorism. None of this […]
[…] 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]: […] In Power’s exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio […]
[…] 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’ […]
[…] In Power’s exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio […]
[PDF file]: […] enforcement became international, based on the ‘supply-side’ strategy. One of the consequences of US entry into World War I was the expansion of the federal government’s domestic intelligence (policing) apparatus. While US Army Intelligence retained much of its authority to spy on political dissidents, the increasing industrialisation catalysed by the war mobilisation created a […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
