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Jul 9, 2022Liked by Robert Morningstar

Operation Paperclip! Explains why the USA is so damned fascist!

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Thank you and bless you Robert. Your posts are virtual 'gems' to a research and history buff like me.

Keep em' coming .. I'll be following along. ~

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The cap photo does resemble the Craft logo seen at Boston

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Michael Shrimpton is described on The Intelligence Summit website as "a barrister specialising in national security and intelligence law, who negotiated the national security aspects of the Pinochet case with the late Lt-General Vernon Walters, formerly Deputy Director of the CIA." He was termed a "conspiracy theorist" when introduced as a pundit on Sky News (December 3, 2007, 11.30pm) particularly with his comments on Weapons of Mass Destruction, which he believes were moved to Syria, adding: "that's what Syria's for." ~

Shrimpton's Wikipedia 'user page' follows the TIS biography:

His active assistance to Intelligence and Law Enforcement Agencies in the Global War on Terror has produced some notable success including the exposure of the Abu Graib “hood” photograph as a fake. His work in strategic intelligence takes him on regular trips to the Pentagon and he also met with senior advisors to the President of the Russian Federation in Moscow in November 2005. He participated in the Global Strategic Review conference in Geneva in 2005 and is a regular contributor at conferences such as Intelcon and the Intelligence Summit Washington DC February 2006.

The 'exposure of the Abu Graib “hood” photograph as a fake' emanates from another of Shrimpton's CVs wherein he also states that his 'objective' is "To assist interested parties." According to TIS, Shrimpton's biography is roughly this: He represents and advises intelligence officers and "is believed to have" connections to a number of Western intelligence services. He has "briefed staffers on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9-11", and "participated in panels on terrorism for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) in Washington DC and at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA". He is also promoted by the Let My People Know Speakers Bureau. He believes Dr. David Kelly was the victim of an assassination that had nothing to do with the British State or its Secret Intelligence Service. ~

According to his TIS biography:

He also played a major role in uncovering the Iraqi Air Force's acquisition of a Boeing 767 simulator, stolen from Kuwait Airways at Kuwait Airport in August 1990. He was of course fully aware of the significance of this discovery, given the cockpit commonality between the Boeing 757 and 767, and Al Qaeda's restriction to these two types on 9-11. ~

He specializes in "counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, counter-assassination, and counter-proliferation." ~

The TIS biography tells us Shrimpton has appeared on CNN and the BBC and is "regularly consulted by the media" on national security and intelligence matters, including the BBC TV drama series Spooks, broadcast in the USA as MI5. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), the United States Naval Institute (USNI), the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the Defense and Security Forum, the Military Commentators Circle, the European Atlantic Group and the Royal Air Force Historical Society. He is a Fellow of the Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom, the Institute of Directors and the Air League

It is a boom time for 'security experts' and those who have 'retired' or gone private such as the speakers and organizers of The Intelligence Summit (TIS), such as Pauline Neville-Jones. These people, who once preferred to work outside the public gaze, now promote themselves as public figures. ~

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