From “Friends With Benefits,” by Tom Stevenson, London Review of Books, 19 January 2023
Category: Europe
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How MI6 Cultivated British Media on Iraq’s Non-Existent WMD
From Declassified U.K. In an article for the New Statesman published four years after the invasion, Rose wrote in detail about how he (and other newspaper journalists) had long been cultivated by MI6. In an article which pays revisiting, he wrote:“To my everlasting regret, I strongly supported the Iraq invasion, in person and in print....
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Germany Arrests 25 People Suspected of Plotting to Overthrow ‘Deep State’ Government
In early-morning raids carried out across the country, some 3,000 police and Special Forces officers detained people believed to be members and supporters of the group, which prosecutors said had been formed in the past year and was operating on the conviction that “Germany is currently ruled by members of a so-called deep state” that...
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Talking Nukes: CIA Chief Meets With Russian Counterpart in Turkey
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency was in Turkey Monday to warn his Russian counterpart against using nuclear weapons, the White House said, part of an expanding effort to engage with the Russians over the conflict in Ukraine. Source: CIA Chief Meets With Russian Counterpart in Turkey – WSJ
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CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine
U.S. intelligence reports at the time predicted that Kyiv would fall quickly, perhaps in a week or two at the most. The predictions spurred the Biden administration to secretly withdraw some key U.S. intelligence assets from Ukraine, including covert former special operations personnel on contract with the CIA, the current and former officials said. Their account...