News you may have missed #0195
November 24, 2009 2 Comments
- CIA releases massive collection of Soviet military documents. The CIA has released a massive selection of sensitive Soviet journal articles, translated into English, which it acquired by various means from 1961 to 1984. Most are from the restricted Soviet journal Military Thought.
- Did the CIA attempt to prevent Gagarin’s lunar flight from happening? Interesting question explored by Peter Pesavento in the latest issue of Space Chronicle, a journal of the London-based British Interplanetary Society.
- GCHQ head’s holiday details leaked online. The head of the British government’s ultra-secret listening agency GCHQ is reviewing his security after personal details were put on the internet by a spookbuster. Thankfully, no Speedo photos this time.







The Daily Express seems to be highly familiar with the intelligence world in Britain, esp. with “M15” and “M16” ;))
Yes, it is certainly true that not all newspapers have equal access to the intelligence services. In the case of Britain, I would personally place The Daily Telegraph at the top of the list of national newspapers with close intelligence contacts. The Express would be up there as well [JF].