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...tasked with internal security), and its sister organization, the Secret Intelligence Service (also called MI6 and concerned with external intelligence), have set up their own websites and now advertise openly for new recruits. But this new transparency has strict limits. Much of the agencies' work is covert and British spymasters seldom venture into the full glare of public attention...
...There has been no decline in the phalanxes of what Evans called "undeclared Russian intelligence officers in the U.K. - at the Russian Embassy and associated organizations conducting covert activity in this country...
...promise and its moments of greatness and beauty, “Tree of Smoke” ultimately proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing. In the novel, which is mostly set in Vietnam from 1963 to 1970, “Tree of Smoke” is the name of a covert operation, the brainchild of a powerful, charismatic CIA operative known simply as the Colonel. It is the Colonel’s obsession to use a double agent, a philosophically disillusioned North Vietnamese man, to trick the Vietcong into thinking that some crazed commandos have stolen an atomic bomb and are trying...
...offered John McFall, chairman of the Treasury select committee. King could hardly quibble with that, but coming to his own defense, the Governor made clear it hadn't been his favored remedy. And here, he said, he was let down by the law. His preference for giving Northern Rock covert help - only letting the public in on the move when the crisis had blown over - ran up against E.U. rules outlawing such action, King said. And any thoughts of a speedy takeover at the hands of another lender were also undermined by Britain's takeover regulations, King added...
...becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Iranians tend to harden their positions in response to threats, and the sense of urgency being engendered by the U.S. and its closest allies is not shared by the international community - the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has found no evidence of a covert nuclear weapons program in Iran, and has reached an agreement with Tehran to address a number of specific concerns over aspects of Iran's nuclear activity at the center of the standoff. That agreement has been pilloried in the U.S., and IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei has come under attack...