[…] study. () Down on the farm Hailed as Britain’s first feature length cartoon, the 1955 production of Animal Farm turns out to have been funded by the CIA, using American newsreel (March of Time), documentary and feature film producer Louis de Rochemont as a conduit.() Having provided the money, the CIA also had ‘psy […]
How MI6 and the CIA were involved in the death of Princess Diana Jon King and John Beveridge New York: SPI Books, 2002, £18.95 In the five years since the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, interest in Diana herself may have waned, (1) but the circumstances surrounding […]
[…] mission, there was only one crew-member, the pilot. This makes sense in terms of secrecy, a consideration that would have been paramount in the mind of the CIA planners. Because of this necessary limitation, is it not possible that the aircraft was adapted to carry its munitions on wing pylons that, in turn, were […]
[…] appears on Wikipedia and is well worth looking at, so will not be repeated here. Suffice to say that for Bush, Zapata provided a useful cover for CIA activities. The CIA’s Bay of Pigs fiasco was even code-named Zapata. Through Zapata, Bush got the political propulsion he required.(5) Carlyle One of the most rewarding […]
[…] real-world Cluedo, into a genuinely useful forum for political analysis. His thesis is a development from two other books of his: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America;(2) and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.(3) Scott effectively had the story documented three years before the […]
[…] buy the Soviet Union’s attempts to lay the blame at the CIA’s door.(8) Sterling describes in some detail the attempts by the West’s governments/intelligence agencies (especially the CIA – of course) to bury this ‘Bulgarian connection’. She professes to find this puzzling, probably demonstrating a refusal by such agencies to acknowledge the real nature […]
[…] the Falkland Islands”. As a thesis it has its antecedents. Peter Dale Scott (and others) have demonstrated that the Pentagon Papers were systematically skewed to show the CIA in a favourable light vis a vis the Vietnam War – always right, and ignored by the politicians, the military and the foreign policy establishment who […]
[…] important. If true, this is the most important weapons story since 1945. I mentioned an American — Harlan Girard — I had met who claimed that the CIA had been using him as an involuntary experimental subject, bombarding him with telepathically transmitted messages, instructions and pain. Harlan Girard’s claims are extremely difficult to deal […]
[…] ‘October Surprise’ events (which has). The part of the deposition reproduced by PFP alleges, as the subhead has it, ‘Richard Brenneke puts mob boss John Gotti and CIA boss Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.’ The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel Brandt, whose essay on […]
[…] The account of the war in the Ukraine forbears to mention the widespread collaboration between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Nazis; Nicaragua – no mention of the CIA; Angola – no mention of the CIA; Mozambique – no RENAMO atrocities, nothing on its origins in Rhodesian Intelligence; and so on. The only value this […]
