McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
[…] the Reagan administration of an embarrassing individual – Larry McDonald. (The source of the embarrassment is detailed below.) Flynt’s hypothesis seems implausible (there are easier ways to kill people) but, as Flynt points out, Howard Hunt’s wife, Dorothy, was killed in a plane crash during the Watergate mess in very peculiar circumstances. (On this […]
[…] assassination, and disingenuous if you have. Mark Lane is working on a book-length critique. Mind Closed/Case Opened. Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK Richard Case Nagell Is –). New York: Carroll and Graf/Richard Gallen, 1992. 824pp. Illustrated, bibliography, index. W. G. Hoskins […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Seven years after the event, to its credit, the New York Times finally revealed a little of the story about the wind-up of the CIA’s Operation 40 because of its narcotics activities.(25) It did so an part of a series of stories exposing operations for which the CIA’s counter-intelligence … Read more
[…] minister’s time that it is not difficult to believe, as Joe Haines has reported in his most recent account of these events, that Dr Stone offered to kill her. () The book is full of fascinating fragments. One worth telling here concerns Lord Wigg, the former George Wigg MP, who, for the first couple […]
[…] Otter heard speak was after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, addressing a meeting of Eastern European refugees……cheered throughout to the echo by people carrying banners saying ‘ Kill the reds.’ ‘ (38) Into the CIA web The BLEF was also working with the European Movement at a time when the CIA was supplying most […]
Daniel Ellsberg New York: Viking, 2003 Colin Challen MP The timely publication of Ellsberg’s memoir shows that from the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident to the Arabian Gulf in 2003, little seems to have changed in the United States’ approach to starting war. Ellsberg’s account of secret White House activity in the wake of the Tonkin … Read more
[…] of the most dangerous disclosures I made in my book was that BOSS had a top secret ‘death squad’ known as the ‘Z-squad’, which was formed to kill Pretoria’s known enemies, particularly those living in exile outside South Africa. This expose was treated with ridicule when my book came out. But the world’s newspapers […]
In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. For … Read more
[…] Terpil in Beirut. A lot happened while we were there. We were staying in West Beirut at the Royal Garden Hotel. The Parti Populaire Syrien threatened to kill us – they thought we were CIA or Mossad – but, more to the point, Marilyn and Donna Korkala arrived out of the blue. Donna Korkala […]
