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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 Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne
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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 […]
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South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)
[PDF file]: […] This is only the beginning!’ Additionally, the revelation that Tobias Ellwood has had the Tory Whip removed – because he was abroad on Parliamentary business when the vote of now confidence took place – comes as interesting news. I am sure Messrs. Tugendhat and Ellwood could be viewed as something of a dream ticket […]
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac
[PDF file]: […] but ‘a ferocious and unresolved debate’ within the CIA and other US agencies over who was responsible, led to the attack being cancelled. Not the debate and vote in the House of Commons, but disagreements within the US intelligence apparatus. What of Mossad and British intelligence? We are told in a throwaway sentence that […]
Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath
[PDF file]: […] government of Panama at Fort Clayton.33 Its pro-U.S. leaders – President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Ricardo Arias Calderón and Guillermo Ford34 – had won a popular vote the previous May as heads of the Democratic Opposition Civic Alliance, which enjoyed strong backing from Panama’s financial sector. However, Noriega’s electoral commission annulled their victory, […]