[PDF file]: […] Council staff, and the way he pushed for the administration to recognise the Iranian threat. Woodward sings the man’s praises. Harvey is a ‘driven legend’ who ‘approached intelligence like a homicide detective – sifting through thousands of pages of interrogation reports, communications intercepts, battle reports, enemy documents, raw intelligence data and nontraditional sources such […]
Contents Lobster 58 Spookaroonie! Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Page 132 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review […]
[…] lines later there is the following quotation. ‘Brutally summarised……Mrs Thatcher and Thatcherism grew out of a right-wing network in this country with extensive links to the military- intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabilisation campaign against the Labour and Liberal […]
[…] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; […]
[PDF file]: […] whom she was doing a heroin run);1 right-wing activist, Joseph Milteer, who was bugged talking about it by the Miami police;2 John Martino, a mid-level gangster;3 and intelligence officer Richard Case Nagell.4 So, we have organised crime, the far right and a spook – the usual suspects; but rather low level.5 Would a CIA […]
[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]
[PDF file]: […] concerned. Page 104 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 of his trips to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War Wilson did talk to someone who was a Soviet intelligence officer with some kind of cover – as a trade official, say. Perhaps Wilson had a few vodkas and talked about British politics. Our Soviet intelligence […]
[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]
[PDF file]: […] PIIs were issued to prevent an officer of Special Branch, DS Wilkinson, from verifying that Paul Grecian had been acting with official backing in order to gather intelligence on Iraq. The Public Interest Immunity certificates were signed by Kenneth Baker and Peter Lilley, relying on an assessment by the prosecuting council that the documents […]
[…] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly, with the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; nor […]
