[…] the chief Middle East arms sales adviser to Secretary of Defense Weinberger, from which post he was positioned to authorise the Israeli arms shipments out of the Pentagon. Secord had also headed planning for the sabotaged (see below) Desert One/Eagleclaw hostage rescue attempt in April 1980 (Secord’s testimony in the Irangate hearings; San Jose […]
[…] and create a platform from which to launch many of its covert operations. One quest-ion the authors do not address is the parallel between the way the Pentagon in the US sought to control intelligence, and thus create a policy-making platform for itself, and the way NATO has become an autonomous policy-making body, rather […]
[…] and, to no-one’s surprise, came up with a bigger ‘threat’, and thus the support for the increased expenditure on U.S. armaments sought by the neo-conservatives and the Pentagon and its satellite arms corporations.(8) If the U.S. arms industry needed a bomber gap, a missile gap, or a psi gap, if the government needed a […]
[…] action a year before invasion took place’, The Guardian, 2 May 2005. For an account of what usually happens see David L. Robb, Operation Hollywood: how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004) Gavin Smith, ‘Hearts & minds’, Film Comment 40 (5), September-October 2004, pp. 28-33. ‘Arab American publisher […]
[…] March, 1983. Letter of 2 October 1997 from William A. Longwell, Acting Counsel, Marine Systems Command to author, concerning a request filed in 1994. See also ‘ Pentagon to set priorities in non-lethal Technologies’ in Inside the Air Force: an exclusive weekly report on Air Force programs, procurement and policy-making, Vol. 5 no. 15, […]
[…] is pretty well what happened. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has come across this wargame before. It doesn’t appear to be in the Pentagon Papers, for example. (Or did I miss it?) RR The Lemming Folk James Gibb Stuart (William McClellan, Glasgow, 1980) This isn’t a new book but is […]
[…] the CIA station was doubling in size. Honduras was a major transit station for cocaine, thanks to their corrupt military. It was clear to the CIA and Pentagon that the contra effort required the support of Honduras, and that the price for this support was to overlook the cocaine traffic. ‘I watched the CIA […]
[…] military intelligence ‘knows the identity’ of the sniper, and gives his age and address, this ‘is believed to be’ is a phoney: a phone call to the Pentagon would tell the British intelligence people whether the man was ex-special forces or not. The Times 23 December 1996 reported that Britain was expanding its ‘psychological […]
[…] socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-Nato noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting a spin. A flare-up in Cyprus might be the first stage. (On Cyprus, Christopher Hitchens’ Cyprus (1984) is of […]
[…] debate at She claims to have been Special Operations Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence and to have established the Remote Viewing Defense protocols for the Pentagon – and to have treated Osama Bin Laden for his kidney problem…… Her allegations were even posted on who should have known better; but I notice […]
