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 […]
[…] 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/ […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA Jonathan Marshall Alliances between the Central Intelligence Agency and organized crime in the United States remain some of the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War era. The Agency went to extraordinary lengths to cover up its recruitment of leading U.S. mobsters in 1960 to assassinate […]
[PDF file]: Journalism and pornography Real crime is always organised Dr. T. P. Wilkinson The CIA As Organised Crime How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World Douglas Valentine Clarity Press, 2016 When I began reading the work of Douglas Valentine about six years ago, I had not read his books, only the articles that the […]
[PDF file]: Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell Garrick Alder In response to an inquiry made by one of the twelve NASA astronauts to have walked on the Moon, the CIA prevented a future CIA Deputy Director from revealing the truth about the so-called ‘Roswell Incident’. The truth about the supposed crash of an extraterrestrial […]
[PDF file]: WHITE MALICE The CIA and the covert recolonization of Africa Susan Williams London: C. Hurst & Co., 2021, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay This is a very big book, 517 pages of text and another 70 of notes, sources and index. Williams’ previous book was Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and […]
[PDF file]: The CIA and Radio Nord Simon Matthews In Jan Stocklassa’s The Man Who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin, reviewed in this issue of Lobster, Alf Enerström is named as one of a group of people suspected of being behind the assassination of Swedish PM Olof Palme. […]
