Category: Intelligence
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Intelligence or operations: A key question for evaluating the CIA
The New Yorker has a valuable long read this week, asking Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good? "Almost from its creation" author Amy Davidson Sorkin notes, "there was a sense that something about the C.I.A. was off. The split between covert action and intelligence gathering and analysis was part of it." This division…
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IRD, MI6 and the eurocommunists
The stream of revelations from the files of Britain’s cold war propaganda unit, the Information Research Department (IRD), continues in the Observer today. The paper reports on how the IRD worked with MI6 in the 1970s to undermine the Italian Communist Party, in spite of the Eurocommunist trend which saw the party taking a more…
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Greeks turn to MI5 after bugging scandal
The Greek government has enlisted a former senior MI5 officer to reform its intelligence services, the daily Kathemirini reported earlier this month. The government has reportedly opted for a British model to restructure Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) in an optimal and effective way. The changes are being initiated in the wake of the tapping…