One example in this sense was the British Union of Fascist (BUF). In theory, the British society was the representative of the oldest democracy in the world in which free assemblies and the freedom of political ideas was not necessarily sanctioned or seen as threatening (Cohen, 1986, p420)
In this sense, "The obvious failure to monitor effectively the recruitment of secret communists at British universities highlighted the difference; in particular MI5 ignored early reports of communist cells in British universities. Although MI5 were vaguely aware of the presence of another 'great illegal', Arnold Deutsch, in Britain during the 1930s, there was no conception of the sophistication of his recruitment propaganda, or the tradecraft on which his agents were trained" (Thurlow, 2004, p
In this sense, "The obvious failure to monitor effectively the recruitment of secret communists at British universities highlighted the difference; in particular MI5 ignored early reports of communist cells in British universities. Although MI5 were vaguely aware of the presence of another 'great illegal', Arnold Deutsch, in Britain during the 1930s, there was no conception of the sophistication of his recruitment propaganda, or the tradecraft on which his agents were trained" (Thurlow, 2004, p
Thus, "after having recognized the importance of the information fed by SIS into the delicate process of foreign policy-making, Whitehall appeared increasingly unable to distinguish good from unreliable intelligence and to interpret the information received. At the high levels (…) the limited flow of SIS intelligence was often subject to misinterpretation and misjudgment" (Williams, 2006,p162) Despite some significant achievements of the British intelligence during the 1930s, the overall image of the Service between the two world wars was not one of efficiency
The CIA's relationship with Luciano continued into the 1950s when the organization worked with the well-known heroin dealer in a plot to illegally and covertly assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. "Lansky, who was Luciano's money man in the States, offered to put out a $1 million contract on Castro's head shortly after the revolution" and the CIA agreed (Cockburn & St
He began to build what became known as 'The French Connection' of the heroin trade. Before this, "at the end of World War II, there was a strong chance that heroin addiction could be eliminated in the United States" (McCoy, 2003, p
He began to build what became known as 'The French Connection' of the heroin trade. Before this, "at the end of World War II, there was a strong chance that heroin addiction could be eliminated in the United States" (McCoy, 2003, p
As these groups gained control over liberated zones inside Afghanistan, the Afghan guerrillas required that its local supporters grow opium to support the resistance (McCoy 1997). Even the United States State Department complained publicly as well as privately about the drug production and trafficking of various anti-Soviet guerrilla factions supported financially and politically by the CIA (Scott 2007)