[PDF file]: Beyond Bugliosi: the Manson murders revisited CHAOS Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O’Neill (with Dan Piepenbring) London: Heinemann, 2019, £20 (h/b) David Black Hollywood Horrors In March 1999, as the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders approached, Tom O’Neill was assigned by the movie magazine, Premiere, to […]
[PDF file]: Just deserters? Just deserts? Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves Matthew Sweet London: Picador, 2018; 351 pp., illustrations, notes Anthony Frewin There’s a footnote to a footnote in the history of the Vietnam War, and that’s the story of the deserters. It could be said to begin […]
[…] simply unavailable to the public. (Some examples: ‘According to a high-ranking Pentagon offi cial’, ‘according to Bruce Roberts, author of the Gemstone File’, ‘according to a secret CIA report’, etc.) Citations of this sort are the investigative equivalent of smoke and mirrors. In the event, Moore defines a professional conspiracist as one ‘who see(s) […]
[…] somebody writing for the U.S. intelligence community during the Reagan-Bush years. What about the FBI, loyalty programs, Cointelpro, McCarthyism, Operations Chaos, Minaret et al at home; the CIA abroad? A ‘fear of clandestine forces’ on the part of the ruling elites of ‘the Middle East’ is entirely rational. Pipes concludes, absurdly: ‘Twofold recommendations. As […]
As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to […]
[…] classmate in Switzerland. Later with the rank of Colonel, he resumed lecturing in the Officers’ College, and currently is serving in His Majesty’s Guard.’ According to a CIA report dated February 1976, ‘The Shah’s communication and relations with his military and intelligence organs are conducted through one of his oldest friends, who was the […]
[…] (Dennis Freney, PO Box A716, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia – £4.50 airmail, £3.75 seamail: international money orders only) In Lobster 11 (p31) we referred to CIA operations in Australia in the middle 1970s. Since then we have received Freney’s Get Gough!, the most detailed account of those episodes we know of. This […]
[…] about trade being good for Third World nations, some of us nearly passed out. Symonds obviously mistook these hard-nosed executives for people with a social conscience……’ The CIA and the 1975 Referendum on EEC membership Sir Richard Body’s encounter with purported CIA personnel prior to the 1975 Referendum on British membership of the EEC […]
[…] number of minor inaccuracies it includes one major misrepresentation, namely that the European Movement, of which I was director between 1969 and 1986, received funding from the CIA and that the accounting structure of the Movement was designed to hide this fact. When Mr. Mullen interviewed me for the purposes of his article he […]
[…] the intelligence services’.(20) Unsurprising, perhaps, that veteran journalist Tom Mangold should claim Kelly’s death was investigated by ‘Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present.’(21) Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion of Iraq; the dodgy dossier; the 45 minute […]
