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The view from the bridge
[…] 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 […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] 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 […]
View from the bridge
Historical Notes
[PDF file]: […] release them, with all their revelations about the Hess affair. Scott Newton is Emeritus Professor of Modern British and International History at Cardiff University. Joseph Fitsanakis, ‘Cambridge spy ring member gave USSR British royals’ pro-Nazi letters’, Intelnews.org, 6 April 2021, at . Blunt’s career, including his time in MI5 and his post-war mission to […]
SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky
[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 […]
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Tittle-tattle
[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 […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] the files proved government mind control activities or some such. 10 or 11 or 12 Roderick Russell introduced us to this. See his and his essay ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . 13 5 was anything but another identikit US imperialist president. Here he is recently in […]