12-03-2010, 08:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2010, 08:32 PM by Peter Presland.)
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:However, if MSM takes this defence seriously as MSM is obliged to (after all, MSM regards the utterances of spy agencies as being the last word on "national security" and "defence of the realm") ......It really is absurd that we should take ANYTHING that a Spook (especially a Chief Spook - ex or current) says seriously when you consider the sine-qua-non of qualifications to become a Spook in the first place. The following quote from Joseph Persico's 'Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage' sums up those qualifications rather well I believe (hat tip to Cryptome):
Quote:Espionage involves peeking at the other fellow's hand, marking the cards, cooking the books, poisoning the well, breaking the rules, hitting below the belt, cheating, lying, deceiving, defaming, snooping, eavesdropping, prying, stealing, bribing, suborning, burglarizing, forging, misleading, conducting dirty tricks, dirty pool, skulduggery, blackmail, seduction, everything not sporting, not kosher, not cricket. In short, espionage stands virtue on its head and elevates vice instead.It is their job to deceive and mislead so, from the habit of a 'successful' working lifetime, that is EXACTLY what Dame Eliar M-B is undoubtedly doing.
Never was Claud Cockburn's little aphorism more apposite than when applied to our SIS's:
Quote:Never believe anything until it has been officially denied
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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