Why is there all the fuss about the leaks? One reason is the media love a spy story and will never underplay it Another is that governments view their monopoly of information as one of the key attributes of their status and power 🖊️ Patrick Cockburn
, the 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts National Guard, for allegedly leaking classified Pentagon documents. Pundits supposedly expert in military matters claim that vital secrets have been revealed whose disclosure offends US allies, risks the lives of Nato special forces and endangers the Ukrainian war effort.
Information about Ukraine’s supply difficulties, mentioned in the documents, are frequently trumpeted by Ukrainian leaders seeking more Nato aid.
Most spy scandals revolve around the fact of betrayal, rather than the value to an enemy of the secrets betrayed. This is true in spy fiction, but is also the case in real life. The defection, for instance, of former MI6 official Kim Philby to the Soviet Union in the 1960s was a reputational blow to Britain because it gave the impression of an establishment riddled with traitors protected by an old boy net.
, was undoubtedly that of Russia in starting the Ukraine war. The FSB intelligence agency had somehow persuaded itself that the Ukrainian government and army would collapse as soon as Russian forces crossed the frontier. Soon afterwards we got an invitation to another briefing, at which the ambassador criticised those who had misinterpreted his previous remarks and stressed, looking ever more incandescent, how little he was concerned about Adams’ visa. We rightly interpreted this to mean that the Embassy was enraged by what had happened and document released decades later showed how right we were.
as a triumph of British diplomacy, it is worth recalling that, for almost three decades prior to the GFA, British policy in Northern Ireland was disastrously counter-productive. The Adams visit to the US was a case in point. If he could get significant American engagement in the Northern Ireland question then this, rather than armed struggle, might be seen by Irish Republicans as the best way of achieving their goals.
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