[…] we picking on Iraq on human rights grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive regimes Washington supports?’ (19) John Brady Kiesling, Political Counsellor in U.S. Embassy in Athens, resigned at the end of February, writing: ‘….twenty years with the State Department…. we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic […]
[…] of Sese Mobuto to power. He was expelled from Zanzibar for subversive activities in 1965 and transferred to Brazil as counsellor for political affairs at the US embassy. Here, he helped consolidate in power the military dictatorship that, with US encouragement, had seized control in 1964. This regime ruled by the most brutal methods, […]
[…] be a shift to a “terror army”?) Claire Sterling, attempting to get round one of the real problems for her Bulgarians-shot-the-Pope thesis, namely: why, if the Bulgarian embassy officials were guilty, did they stay in Rome? points out that: “One did not leave until 15 months after the Pope was shot … Another … […]
[…] warriors who gathered round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great […]
[…] of the latter for assassinating Kennedy even though no evidence had been collected to support the charge? (9) Why the charade of Oswald’s visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, which we now know to have been made by a double? (10) Why did CIA Director Richard Helms demonstrate such a close interest […]
[…] but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department was the ultimate beneficiary. Similarly, the necessary market revolution against the sclerotic corporatism […]
[…] distributor. Floridia cited Stark’s frequent prison visits from Wendy M. Hansen at the U.S. consulate in Florence, ‘Dear Ron’ letters from Charles C. Adams at the U.S. embassy in London, addressed to Stark’s LSD lab in Brussels (these were seized by Italian police after his arrest), and his links with Philip B. Taylor III […]
[…] League was set up in London and an Anglo-American Committee in New York. In England, “so many Britons sought to enlist in the American forces that the embassy in London had to publicise a statement discouraging applications.” (17) This outburst of Anglo-Saxonism may be considered as the culmination of an effort of many years […]
[…] Which ones, Professor? The only KGB agent in the story that I can recall is the KGB officer Kostikov who was under diplomatic cover in the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. Oswald – or someone pretending to be Oswald, it still isn’t clear which – tried to contact Kostikov. Oswald’s ‘demi-monde’ consisted not of […]
[…] who had infiltrated the Palestinians and some left groups. This man ran into him time and time again, including once at a function organised by the Cuban embassy in London. Kelly was seen on Irish Rights marches the night the Ulster office was attacked, medical aid for Vietnam, Portugese meetings and even a demo […]
