[…] which is dedicated to the memory of the late, great, Bill Hicks?) Steamshovel 11 contains part 3 of G. J. Krupey’s piece on JFK, LSD and the CIA; an interview with Alan Cantwell, one of the AIDS heretics of America and author of Queer Blood; a piece about Clinton, Mena and the whole Arkansas […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] own inventions facilitating the use of radio waves, to work for the US Atomic Energy Authority, and, in 1970, to visit Israel, at the request of the CIA, to assess the abilities of Uri Geller. During this time Puharich worked closely with Sir John Whitmore.(16) They visited Warsaw in 1974 where they set up […]
[…] who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat …… in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield […]
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler […]
[…] I thought! And so did every other liberal I knew at the time. Surprisingly, this was also the point-of-view of James McCord, the right-wing evangelist and former CIA officer who led the break-in team into the Watergate. In a series of odd ‘newsletters’, written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 SUCCESS The CIA in Guatemala, 1954 James Lusher On 18 June 1954, following the positive outcome in Iran a year previously, backed by the President, Congress and the State Department, the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by […]
[PDF file]: On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA David Black Is History a fiction? In his best-seller of 1991, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, the late John Bossy claimed that Bruno spied for Queen Elizabeth’s enforcer, Sir Francis Walsingham, at the French embassy in London. This was […]
[PDF file]: Finks How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers Joel Whitney London and New York: O/R Books, 2016 1 paperback, 328 pages, bibliography, notes, index W hitney had the bright idea of exploring some of the activities of the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) in the 1950s and 60s by showing how the […]
[PDF file]: Mary’s Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in […]
