Agents of Influence: Britain’s Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA

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There were fake horoscopes predicting Hitler’s death. Counterfeit letters and maps were created “proving” that Germany was threatening Latin America. Fake news was disseminated. The epilogue draws parallels between the Russian influence during the 2016 election and the British influence campaign during WWII. The author somewhat disingenuously differentiates the two operations, but it all depends upon whose side you are on. In each case, US public opinion was manipulated. The book was interesting and well written. The author’s narration of the audio book was very good. I found the whole “end justifies the means” thing very disturbing though. “Heroism” is truly in the eye of the beholder. You really can’t believe anything. ANTONIA MERCORELLA, CEO, REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE OF QUEENSLAND: Well, sadly, we know that consumer perceptions about real estate professionals are not particularly good. We know this from annual surveys that are conducted, and it's certainly something that I think, as a peak body for real estate professionals, disappoints us and equally, I would say, it disappoints those who are in the profession. Arne Herløv Petersen: used as a Soviet agent of influence in Norway for over 10 years, he mainly focused on various means of manipulating Danish public opinion. [21] I still recall a senior delegate at the Abuja conference, a Russian Colonel, telling me he enjoyed my paper, intriguingly just before I stood up to deliver it. The mere fact that the distribution of the paper had allegedly been tightly controlled prior to the event did not seem to spare me the blushes of having argued in it that Russian military theorists were all too aware of how they often had to conduct deep operations from a position of geo-political weakness. Of course, this is not the first novel since Simon & Schuster renewed their novel license in 2018 to further some of those storylines: Christopher L. Bennett’s The Higher Frontier featured characters he had created for previous Star Trek novels set in the Motion Picture era.

James W. Lucas, "Intelligence and the Decision-Making Process", in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Military Librarians' Workshop, proceedings of Information Management and Intelligence, The Defense Intelligence Analysis Center Bolling Air Force Base, Washington (1987), p. 32. ZED NASHEET: A good sharp salesman should be able to read every single personality out there. Like your body language right now is telling me that you're very straightforward, you're very honest, you're an honest person but you're also a little bit indecisive person so, you need that push forward. He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.

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Now I frankly don't think there is a lot of benefit in having these programmes where we go into the market and fine a heap of agents and then publish the results in the newspaper the following day. So, with the announced visits, we would work with the industry associations, and we would tell them this is what we're looking at. It might be underquoting; it might be rent bidding. A few weeks later I found myself on another overseas assignment, this time at the Nigerian Army’s Resource Centre in Abuja, Nigeria, where I gave a high-level briefing to the country’s senior military and intelligence officers. I looked at three case-studies, the British in Northern Ireland, the United States in Iraq and the Russians in Syria. My argument was that force is only one means by which states can respond to the challenges posed by Violent Non-State Actors. For Counter Terrorism to really succeed, it must coordinate all of the tools of Grand Strategy for the purpose of accomplishing the ends of government policy.

ZED NASHEET: In today's market place every single phone call matters every single meeting matters and every single appraisal matters and if you don't close the deal someone else will. How's that for an angle, better? ZED NASHEET: Everyone has their own opinions and I respect it and if that's their experience and the journey that they've had, I feel bad. At the end of the day, nobody's perfect in life, correct? And that's why you got to do your due diligence, your homework, there shouldn't be any lies, why would you have the need to lie? In this real estate industry if you want to survive, you got to go out there and become a hunter and be willing to be able to take punches on a daily basis, it's the world's easiest industry to get into and it's also the world's hardest industry to survive into and in real estate, if you don't sell, you don't get paid. a b Paul A. Smith, On Political War (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1989), pg. 4.

Angello M. Codevilla, "Political Warfare," in Political Warfare and Psychological Operations: Rethinking the US Approach, ed. Frank R. Barnett and Carnes Lord (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press in Cooperation with National Strategy Information Center, 1989), pg. 85. Booher-Jennings, J. (2008). Learning to label: Socialisation, gender, and the hidden curriculum of high-stakes testing. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29, 149–160. The best part of the book is the Afterword where the author discusses the comparisons between 1940 and 2016’s use of ‘fake news’. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. The Loyalty Review Board publicized the previously secret Attorney General's list in March 1948 as a "List of Communist classified organizations." The list gave the name and date founded, and (for active groups) the headquarters, and chief officers. [35] The Ministry of Finance in East Berlin, adorned for a session of the World Peace Council on May 24, 1954

a b Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson, Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy (New York: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1984), pg. 133.ANTONIA MERCORELLA TO CAMERA: Real estate agents are frustrated at the conduct of a select few who give the industry a poor name and bad reputation.