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More interesting podcasts on Afghanistan at Electric Politics. George Kenney, of Electric News, has posted a full transcript of last month’s interesting interview with Graham E. Fuller, CIA’s former station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan. Also, a new highly interesting interview on Afghanistan has been posted on the Electric News website, this time with George Wilson. A veteran reporter who covered the Vietnam and Iraq wars, Wilson makes some noteworthy comparisons between Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Panetta, not Blair, should name CIA station chiefs, says ex-CIA agent. Haviland Smith, former CIA agent in Europe and the Middle East, has penned an editorial for The Baltimore Sun, in which he denounces as “simple insanity” efforts by Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, to have a say at who gets appointed as CIA station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. This is the second ex-CIA agent to issue the same warning in recent days.
Two more people arrested in Lebanon for spying for Israel. This raises the number of those arrested for belonging to an alleged Israeli spy ring in southern Lebanon to nearly 40. The latest arrestees include Ziad al Homsi, who in 1969 was photographed with Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat.

Former spy chief “shocked” to learn MI5 bugged people. Remarkably, Lady Manningham-Buller, former director general of MI5, told Britain’s House of Lords on June 19 that she did not realize MI5 engaged in bugging when she joined the service over 30 years ago.
Man behind Canadian Nazi Party was Jewish spy, claims new book. In 1965 the Canadian Jewish Congress hired a spy to infiltrate the Canadian Nazi Party. The CJC tasked John Garrity with “build[ing] up the fledgling Canadian Nazi Party”, but he ultimately ended up helping turn the Canadian Nazi Party into a media sensation. This allegation is made in Shakedown, a new book by Canadian lawyer and journalist Ezra Levant.
An interesting podcast with CIA’s former station chief in Kabul. Graham E. Fuller talked for over an hour to George Kenney, of Electric Politics, on what is really happening in Afghanistan.
Russians declassify archives on valuable Soviet asset in WWII Germany. The files of Willi Lehmann, (codename Breitenbach) have been declassified by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Lehmann notified the Soviets of the exact time of the German invasion in 1941. He was arrested by the Gestapo and shot in 1942 [article in German].