This report comes from the Daily Mail Online, the hugely popular, and factually challenged, British tabloid. The allegation that Corbyn would betray his country to its enemies is speculative at best, a smear at worst. But the story does accurately reflect the apprehension that the British intelligence services feel about Corbyn’s possible ascension to power...
Category: MI6
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MI6 Spy Chief to Stay Through Brexit
It is a measure of how the Brexit had destabilized Great Britain that the government feels it necessary to keep its top spy, MI6 chief Alex Younger, in his position longer than usual, just to deal with the consequences. Younger, 55, is due to retire in November after five years in the role. But officials...
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MI6 on YouTube: James Bond Need Not Apply
This ad (or advert as they say in the U.K.) attempts to put a human face on British intelligence. It starts ominously, a man of color and threatening music. It trolls the James Bond vision of intelligence work (“It’s not about finding the button on your ejector seat”), in favor of kinder gentler stuff. “It’s...
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Ecuadoran Intelligence Monitored Manafort’s Meetings with Assange, Says The Guardian.
If true, the UK Guardian’s story about former Trump campaign manager Julian Assange is very damaging to the Wikileaks founder. Wikileaks denies it. The Guardian’s sourcing is vague in places. Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure...
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Tale of the Khashoggi Tape
Our ongoing reality show about Jamal Khashoggi might called, Law & Order: Special Assassination Unit. In this daily drama, law enforcement officials investigate a tough to crack case of extra-judicial political homicide In the current episode we are watching as the cops gather at the crime scene, and ask, Where is the evidence? Meanwhile, on the...
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