[…] and the brains/personalities of most of us will begin to wilt. There is one nit I would pick. After describing twenty five years of experiments by the CIA and others, Streatfield comes to the most recent group of people claiming to be the victims of malevolent state experiments. At www.mindcontrolforums.com he notes the accounts […]
[…] of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? […]
[…] world of industrial espionage is a curiously under-reported place. Reading Bamford’s work proves the point. He appears to accept the proposition, made by James Woolsey, a former CIA director, (quoted in the Euro-report) that: ‘Even if espionage yielded economically usable intelligence, it would take an analyst a very long time to analyse the large […]
[…] any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But even this isn’t true. The major part of the CIA’s work is concerned with the National Intelligence Estimates, collating and assessing information on the perceived […]
The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this while completing one of the most amazing somersaults […]
[…] Year’s Day 1981. (Sunday News 20th May 1984) SD The Brotherhood of Eternal Love Stuart Tendler and David May (Granada, London 1984) Frank Zappa always said the CIA were behind the psychedelic revolution. Maybe not, but there are some interesting characters and international crooks like Robert Vesco behind the financing of LSD production. Tendler […]
[…] latter event is the main reason behind US pressure for polygraphs and union ban, as being computerised, Platform will be more vulnerable to union action. Claim that CIA fear of unions at GCHQ the main reason for union ban. Mail On Sunday 8th April GCHQ member (one of the union hold-outs) claims polygraph forced […]
[…] paper and stare at a computer screen a lot. This is interesting to me but wouldn’t be much fun to read about. To write his seminal 1986-published CIA: a forgotten history, (12) took Blum four years of sitting in libraries in London. There’s not a lot you can say about that; and Blum doesn’t […]
[…] elderly gentlemen sitting over cups of coffee and discussing world developments. What do these fellows want? MP ‘A’: These are no elderly gentlemen – they are former CIA and BND people working together. MP ‘X’: I feel it is dangerous if we publicize such things. If such matters were to become public, it would […]
[…] in my local library with a UK price stuck over the dollar price, suggesting a few were imported. This should have been sub-titled ‘The Politics of the CIA in the 1980s’. I’ve read this twice, the second time to check that my initial perception that this was a very remarkable book was correct. It […]
