tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1244034 2009-07-11T14:16:05-05:00 Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful . . . and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell, 1946 TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834523b6869e2011571f5084a970b 2009-07-11T14:16:05-05:00 2009-07-11T15:19:25-05:00 Max Holland Print Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from a longer essay entitled “I. F. Stone: Encounters with Soviet Intelligence,” which appears in the Summer 2009 issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies. To read the entire essay click here. By...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=hyXP4gdkTSw:JBqwO2LZXsM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=hyXP4gdkTSw:JBqwO2LZXsM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=hyXP4gdkTSw:JBqwO2LZXsM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=hyXP4gdkTSw:JBqwO2LZXsM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=hyXP4gdkTSw:JBqwO2LZXsM:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=hyXP4gdkTSw:JBqwO2LZXsM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=hyXP4gdkTSw:JBqwO2LZXsM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WashingtonDeCoded/~4/hyXP4gdkTSw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/07/stone-and-the-hiss-case.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67970427 2009-06-10T23:11:10-05:00 2009-06-16T16:56:26-05:00 Max Holland Print By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr While we were writing Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, based on Alexander Vassiliev’s notebooks, we anticipated a hostile reaction from battered but still rancorous remnants of the pro-Communist...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=FP7oaL6r2iY:BKmuZXp87YI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=FP7oaL6r2iY:BKmuZXp87YI:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=FP7oaL6r2iY:BKmuZXp87YI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=FP7oaL6r2iY:BKmuZXp87YI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=FP7oaL6r2iY:BKmuZXp87YI:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=FP7oaL6r2iY:BKmuZXp87YI:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=FP7oaL6r2iY:BKmuZXp87YI:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WashingtonDeCoded/~4/FP7oaL6r2iY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/06/in-denial-round-11.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-62639741 2009-02-11T13:53:54-05:00 2009-02-13T10:33:40-05:00 Max Holland Print By Max Holland How objective and useful are intelligence postmortems of the kind produced in Washington? The press usually accords them an exalted status from the moment they are released, whether they are produced by the executive branch, Congress, or...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?a=anJym6Jw"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?d=41" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?a=wDEXr19i"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?d=50" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?a=JoUCC7tO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?i=JoUCC7tO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?a=pA1VXQUa"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?d=54" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?a=nwMXnWeF"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/WashingtonDeCoded?i=nwMXnWeF" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WashingtonDeCoded/~4/FF1VTpeTT1M" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/02/the-politics-of-postmortems.html