[…] topics that really should have been included. I would probably include a wider selection of secret and security services and their misdeeds, including South Africa’s apartheid era BOSS and the French sinkers of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior; an investigation into the murky world of mineral mining in Central Africa is long overdue; Charles Higham’s Trading […]
[…] central figures in the drama with lives already draped in concealment, to whom we might properly attribute another layer of deception. Gay gangster, gay businessman, gay FBI boss, gay anti- Castro activist and, perhaps, emerging gay patsy. As Dean Andrews might have said, ‘How d’you like them apples?’ Mr Liebeler. I am advised by […]
[…] had access to all information concerning the developments of the arsenal of toxic substances in the CIA.(12) After a trip to Paris and Norway, Olsen told his boss, Lt. Colonel Ruwet, that he was so unhappy that he would prefer to be discharged or fired to carrying on with his work. This led to […]
[…] probably worked for the CIA in some covert capacity, and on 22nd November 1963 had been in a New Orleans courtroom with Carlos Marcello, the Louisiana mafia boss, for whom he was working as a private investigator. (It was widely believed that Ferrie had flown Marcello back from Mexico after Bobby Kennedy had him […]
[…] 2 CMLR 800 Royer, para 3 of the Ruling It has emerged recently from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that a standard technique used by BOSS in the eighties and early nineties was the chemical inducement of a ‘stroke’ or ‘heart attack’. Press reports have stated that these chemicals were probably developed […]
[…] given to the military during the massacres in 1965 which left perhaps 250,000 dead. Somehow Kadane had persuaded a senior CIA agent in Indonesia and his diplomatic boss at the time to talk, on the record. The story was run, briefly, in the British serious press. A couple of months later Peter Dale Scott […]
[…] 16 Ninkovich p. 164 Warner ibid. p. 5 Francis Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, forthcoming. Warner p. 3. Braden’s boss was Wisner but it was Allen Dulles as CIA Deputy Director who gave the go-ahead for IOD, and Braden worked directly under Dulles. Wisner’s ‘forte was […]
John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004, $25.95, h/b ( £14.50 from Amazon.co.uk in January 2005) This is an interesting book, though it is not quite as interesting as it sounded in the interviews with the author which are on the Net. The key material is Perkins’ account of working as an economist for an … Read more
Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay ‘The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch … Read more
[…] although the ‘spin’ is homage to the baby, its real purpose is to flatter ‘ordinary’ people. (A bit like President Bush saying ‘the American people are the boss’.) It is one of the best examples of ‘fusion’ there is rich/poor/animals/the heavens united in reverence not least because the ‘real’ status quo are […]
