[…] to attempts by the New York Times and Washington Post to publish stories on the Pentagon Papers in June 1971 against US government attempts to suppress publication. CIA Stalling State Dept Histories on Indonesia, July 2001‘State Historians conclude US passed names of Communists to Indonesian Army, which killed at least 105,000 in 1965-66.’ www.edu.gwu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/ […]
[…] on those three Texas Savings and Loan institutions Bentsen owned. All three, according to former Houston Post journalist Peter Brewton, ended up in the hands of the CIA and the Mafia. The press has also (mostly) steered clear of allegations that the CIA ran drugs and weapons through the small airstrip at Mena, Arkansas. […]
[…] The authors haven’t exposed much that is new, instead they have taken all the previous stories and strung them together to make a damning indictment of the CIA. All your favourite stories are in here, from Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in […]
[…] existence is a surprising development. The author is a New York Times journalist and for one of the NYT’s writers to produce a critical study of the CIA is unprecedented to my knowledge, and tells us much about the diminished status of the Agency. Of course it isn’t the history of the Agency, merely […]
[…] Roosevelt Study Centre, Middelburg, The Netherlands, 18-19 October 2001. See note (1) The impulse for this event came from Frances Stonor Saunders’ Who Paid The Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, and the media coverage that it received after its publication in 1999. The intention of the conference was to give as […]
[…] of the Conference’s ‘end of ideology’ theme and its main protagonists. (Scott-Smith is the author of The Politics of Apolitical Culture: the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and post-war American hegemony, Routledge, 2001, reviewed in Lobster 43) Giles Scott-Smith, ‘The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the end of ideology and the 1955 Milan Conference: […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. A glance at the recent partial dismantling of De Gaulle’s secret networks is perhaps the best way to understand the ‘ CIA problem’ confronting Jimmy Carter after Richard Nixon. De Gaulle’s intensive use of SDECE and SAC operatives in illegal activities left himself, and, above all, his successors […]
[…] Given that the official story regarding BCCI, namely that it was to be the ‘honeytrap’ for black market, illegal and terrorist operations, we might assume that the CIA was at this point aware of Siddiqui, if not the network itself. On 11 January 1999, H. M. Customs agent Maxine Crook paid Orland Europe a […]
[…] British industry, and Britain as a whole, would benefit from membership. Allegations have since been made that these studies were funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S. being in favour of British entry. (6) Although no official record of the first campaign exists, making it difficult to assess its cost, estimates […]
[…] VENONA and had found the name of Willi Brandt in it.(5) In his private correspondence Wright has written that “elements in MI5, sharing their information with the CIA, claimed that old war-time ciphers threw suspicion on Brandt himself of being a Soviet agent’. Wright’s friend James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter-intelligence division, had […]
