[…] State Department cables from Wikileaks. In December a cable revealed that UK objections in 2008 to the use of RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to fly American U-2 spy planes over Lebanon were overridden.27 In 2009 Jon Day, the Ministry of Defence’s director general for security policy, told US under-secretary of state 25 ‘This isn’t […]
[…] Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia….. In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that […]
[PDF file]: […] for pushing this policy, handing the country over to Nuri al-Maliki. Her hostility was reciprocated with one of Hill’s staff describing her as a ‘goddam fucking British spy’. For the US military, ‘the greatest threat to the mission had become the US embassy’. Her identification with the US military was complete. They had success […]
[PDF file]: […] Europe was straightforward: the War on Terror you are just embarking on is one we have been fighting since our birth. Let our high-tech firms and privatized spy companies show you how it’s done.’ ‘It’s not an exaggeration to say that the War on Terror industry saved Israel’s faltering economy, much as the disaster […]
[PDF file]: […] introduction to The Enemy of Europe, which Francis told me he got from Kaye. Kaye may also be responsible for the zany claim that a mysterious German spy service called ‘Z-16’ confiscated the German edition of Enemy of Europe. If the book was confiscated, which is quite possible, it would almost certainly have been […]
