I am thinking over the whole “comments” policy. Comments on the topic of comments are welcome.
Richelson on MISTY
The National Security Archive has posted the passage about MISTY from Jeffrey Richelson’s The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology, (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002).
The Job Is A Real Downer
AFP has a remarkable file photograph of Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, listening to Mohamed ElBaradei, at a press conference last month—during the period Washington was attempting to enlist him to challenge ElBaradei for the IAEA’s top job. Downer’s face pretty much tells you what Australian Prime Minister John Howard told reporters today: Downer isn’t …
Paris Negotiations Update 17: Tussels in Brussels
Iran and the EU-3, meeting in Brussels, agreed to a new round of negotiations, Reuters reports. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has a statement by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. “We are now able to move forward to a next phase,” Straw said, leading to “a longer-term arrangement to provide objective guarantees that Iran’s …
