[PDF file]: […] of what he sees as his ouster from Lobster. 105 Winter 2010 Lobster was a journal of parapolitics, primarily covering the activities of the British Security and Intelligence Services. It was co-founded/edited with Robin Ramsay, who went through something of a self-confessed mid-life crisis and unceremoniously ejected Stephen Dorril, stole the Lobster name, subscription […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] that hundreds of Belorussian (or Byelorussian) collaborators with the occupying Nazi forces during WW2, many of whom were guilty of war crimes, were recruited by the US intelligence services of the period and/or were allowed into the United States following the end of WW2. This is the secret. This edition has a new introduction […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] how much it resembles the way business was transacted in the 18th century. A system has developed where patronage and privilege appear to count for more than intelligence, life experience and hard work. Groups of young ambitious people cluster around significant ‘king makers’ (for the New Labour ‘project’ these appear to have been Peter […]
[PDF file]: […] of Burgess and McLean in 1951, expansive liberal types like Klop were not in vogue. A strong case can be made for him being the most competent intelligence officer the British had working for them 1935-1950. At first glance it might appear that John Freeman, like Ustinov, was a casualty of the Cold War. […]
[PDF file]: […] creates a striking effect, which is difficult to quite put a finger on. The macro/micro contrast between Oswald’s strange life, shuttling about at the behest of some intelligence agency or agencies – the provocateur in the subtitle being only one of his roles – within some of the hottest years of the Cold War […]
[PDF file]: […] continues even after al-Megrahi’s death. The book makes clear that al-Megrahi was a vulnerable figure. He, along with many other Libyans, was a US sanctions buster, had intelligence connections, two passports and did not tell his wife about his regular trips abroad, including those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context […]
[…] they omitted from the story which is significant. To discuss Oswald-Cuba-CIA without referring to all the information we now have showing that Oswald was working for US intelligence agencies3 looks like deception by omission – disinformation by omission. But the omission is only deliberate if Shenon and Sabato know the 1 ‘How the CIA […]
[PDF file]: […] fire, they ‘cowered’ – as opposed to sheltering, which was what white men did. They ‘lounged’ a lot. Instead of shouting, they ‘hollered’. While Britain used ‘covert intelligence’, they ‘spied’ treacherously. Their attacks were ‘heartless’ and ‘cowardly’. They were addicted to ‘fighting, killing and treachery’, usually for lucre, or under the influence of ‘gat’ […]
