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The View from the Bridge
A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont
[PDF file]: […] referendum might have been influenced by hostile actors, which fed into an unwillingness to look at it too closely.6 Did the Russian try to influence the Brexit vote? Yes, they did. But the extant evidence shows that the Russians operations were relatively minor and seem unlikely to me to have had a significant effect.7 […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.
[PDF file]: […] 98 The Pike Report, as a result of having been leaked prematurely by a friendly or hostile source to the Village Voice, was then suppressed by a vote of the House. 99 100 Servadio (see note 85) pp. 258-259, 261; Laurent (see note 98) pp. 244-257 30 anti-Allende operation, has blamed it on Richard […]
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Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball
[PDF file]: […] Revolution; and second, the series of internal inquiries into the place of intelligence in the British state.’ (p. 41) In 1919 . . . ‘The entire Secret Vote was worth less than one-tenth of the cost of a Royal Navy cruiser. Army Field Intelligence amounted to 0.1 per cent of the Army Estimates.’ (p. […]
A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso
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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]
Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics
[PDF file]: […] of Edward Bennett Williams, and lawyer for the Democratic National Committee), President Johnson once ‘even had one Senator’s mistress contacted to have her persuade her lover to vote to break a filibuster’.5 6 Hoover also 54 Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, pp. 398-410; Summers, Official and Confidential, pp. 310-312; Flynt and Eisenbach, One […]