False Flag is something that happens historically, happens regularly. Perfectly standard thing for intelligence agencies to get involved in. Annie Machon, interview 30th April 2010, MI5 whistleblower
They decide it’s in their interests ... to carry out an atrocity in order to build up a market for things like the arms industry, in order to build up an environment politically where they can get away with taking away our basic rights ... Vested class interests. ibid.
For over fifty years James Bond has been one of the best loved fictional characters ever invented. The books have sold 100 million copies ... How much of Bond came from Fleming’s own life? James Bond: The True Story, Channel 5 2012
Fleming’s gripping stories would take in his own wartime experience in Naval Intelligence but they would also reveal his attitude to women. ibid.
He simply made it up as he went along. ibid.
Much of James Bond was shaped by his own personality. ibid.
We know very little about his past ... This is fifty years now and they’ve kept it going. It’s unique among movie-making. Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of James Bond, Craig, 2012
Before you go too long you become a parody of yourself. ibid. Timothy Dalton
From James Bond to Spooks the fictional world of espionage is a world of danger and deception, glamour and lies, but what is spying really like? Peter Taylor, Modern Spies, BBC 2012
During the Cold War with Russia, Britain’s spies were recruited from the upper classes. Part of an old-boy network centred around Oxbridge colleges. ibid.
The bread and butter of spycraft – surveillance. ibid.
Fifty years ago the dominant threat was Reds under the Bed. ibid.
Anna Chapman ... The FBI arrested her and the rest of the sleeper cell. ibid.
Russia has retained a huge espionage apparatus. ibid.
Now there’s a new breed of modern spy known as the Cut Out. ibid.
China is accused of stealing military and industrial secrets on an unprecedented scale. ibid.
A dramatic new weapon – the cyber spy. ibid.
In 2007 the whole country [Estonia] was targeted with a massive cyber-attack which lasted over four weeks. ibid.
Spying is not an infallible science. ibid.
The spy’s nightmare is the rogue source. ibid.
Were British spies complicit in sending terrorist suspects to Libya to be tortured? Peter Taylor, Modern Spies II, BBC 2012
Do modern spies really have a license to kill? ibid.
Over the last two years four Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed; they are believed to be pre-emptive assassinations designed to stall Iran’s nuclear programme. ibid.
Their work is dangerous, highly complex, often mundane and rarely glamorous. ibid.
A permanent war against a hidden enemy. A new strategy of prevention. And new perils to privacy ... The government’s secret surveillance efforts. Frontline: Spying on the Home Front, PBS 2007
Innocent people will get caught in the dragnet. ibid.
Spying on the home front had begun in the shadow of 9/11. ibid.
The NSA was accused of invading American civil liberties during the scandals of the Watergate era in the 1970s. ibid.
Privacy has become an illusion. ibid.
The government accounting office found 199 data mining projects in more than 50 government agencies. ibid.
In 2007, nearly two years after this programme was broadcast in the US, the National Intelligence Director confirmed that US telecommunication companies had played a key role in the domestic eavesdropping programme. The telecoms companies have been granted immunity by the US courts for cooperating with the government in its surveillance activities but it’s for the federal courts to decide such scheme’s constitutionality. ibid.
In the House of Lords the government finally lost its global battle to ban Spycatcher. Panorama: Spycatcher 1988
A plot against the Labour government under Harold Wilson. ibid.
Harold Wilson first came to MI5’s attention at 31 when he became Secretary to the Board of Trade in Clement Attlee’s post-war government … A succession of business trips by Wilson to the Soviet Union fuelled the suspicion of a few MI5 officers. ibid.
Who’s winning the war between young British Muslims bent on terror and the security services devoted to stopping them? Panorama & Peter Taylor: Real Spooks, BBC 2007
The second spy who fooled the world – an Iraqi defector from Saddam’s intelligence service who made his way to Jordan. Panorama: The Spies Who Fooled the World, BBC 2013
I want a card on every radical person in this country. J Edgar 2011 starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Judi Dench & Armie Hammer & Naomi Watts & Josh Lucas & Ed Westwick & Dermot Mulroney & Damon Herriman & Jeffrey Donovan & Zach Grenier et al, director Clint Eastwood, Hoover’s commentary
The Russian government released video of a fake rock which they said was being used by British spies in Russia. Putin, Russia and the West II: Democracy Threatens, BBC 2011
How far to the border? Spies of Warsaw I, BBC 2013 starring David Tennant & Janet Montgomery & Marcin Dorocinski et al, director Coky Giedroyc, writers Clement & La Frenais, opening scene
You’re a spy … You could be shot. ibid. woman to Tennant
We are both men who work in the shadows. Spies of Warsaw II, spy to Tennant
Kroll is bigger than you can possibly imagine. Kroll Associates is a global security and Intelligence company. Publicly traded and privately managed, Kroll specialises in large building security and industrial espionage. In 1993 Kroll got a contract to manage security at the World Trade Centre. They held that position up until the Towers fell. Who Killed John O'Neill?
Jerome Hauer, the go-to-guy for bio-terrorism. In an investigation of 9/11, Hauer’s name comes up more than anybody else’s. As a Managing Director of Kroll in New York City Hauer was responsible for doing security at the World Trade Centre ... Just prior to this, Jerome Hauer was Rudi Giuliani’s right-hand man in New York, where he headed the office of Emergency Management – FEMA in New York City. ibid.
Hauer worked in 1999 with Steven Hatfill, the prime suspect in the anthrax attacks at the Scientific Applications International Corporation – the SAIC. This company, the SAIC, was awarded a huge bio-defence contract after 9/11. Hatfill, a well-known friend of Jerome Hauer, was working on the military-grade anthrax program at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick Maryland. ibid.
Kroll has been involved in a host of shady operations. In 1991 the Kuwaiti government hired Kroll to investigate Saddam Hussein’s finances. In 2002 Kroll was given the massive responsibility of reorganising Enron. Through ’97 and ’98 Kroll oversaw the elections of the Teamsters Union. And just following 9/11 Kroll was tapped by LAPD to monitor all counter-terrorism efforts in Los Angeles. Kroll really gets around. ibid.
Kroll is CIA. ibid.
And there are other companies like Kroll as well. There’s T&M Protection run by Robert Tucker. Tucker! Tucker met with O’Neill and Hauer the night before 9/11. They had drinks at Elaine’s. There’s Strang-Hayes Consulting. There’s Wackenhut Corporation. Then there’s CTC International. The Cohen Group. Then there’s Stratesec formerly called SecuraCom. Stratesec also had a contract to do security at the World Trade Centre. SecuraCom also had security contracts for Dulles International Airport and United Airlines. And remember, United had two planes crash on 9/11. And one of those planes came from Dulles. Now, the interesting thing about SecuraCom is that from 1993-2000 one of its principle shareholders was a man by the name of Marvin Bush! ibid.
The people who run counter-terrorism may very well be the terrorists themselves. ibid.
You have to move the MENA Operation. Well where do you move it to? Some place more out of the way than MENA. And what’s more out of the way than flight school? Where did Mohamed Atta get his flight training? Huffman Aviation School in Venice, Florida ... Mohamed Atta had one of these visas. Guess who gave it to him? Rudi Deckers, DEO of Hoffman Aviation. And there is overwhelming evidence that Rudi Deckers works for the CIA. Why would a CIA agent run a flight school? On July 5th 2000 the DEA discovered over thirty pounds of heroin on a plane owned by Wally Hilliard. He is the owner of Huffman Aviation. ibid.