[…] disastrous Iranian hostage operations, the Pentagon created a new intelligence/covert ops unit called Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), also known, apparently, as “the activity”. Augmenting both the CIA and the Pentagon’s own DIA, ISA existed for at least a year without Presidential/Congressional knowledge or approval. The unit is said to have operated in Central […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Happy families The journal Qualitative Inquiry has published a special issue focusing on Harold Lloyd Goodall, Jr.’s book A need to know: the clandestine history of a CIA family (Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2006). ‘By locating his narrative within scholarship dedicated to family secrecy and to cultural histories of the cold war […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] of a long piece by Uri Dowbenko, now working with Steamshovel, who is making another attempt at a sort of Christic Institute mega conspiracy theory about the CIA and drugs. It includes what purports to be an affidavit from the Reagan-era Director of the CIA William Casey. (To me it appears the most obvious […]
[…] Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the Soviets that they – the Americans – had such capabilities when they didn’t.(1) The […]
[…] articles from the CWIHP bulletin. Covers numerous topics related to the Cold War. Categories include arms race, Cold War origins, intelligence, Krushchev era, Stalin Era. Declassification of CIA critique on Bay of Pigs http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/news/19980222.htm Withheld for 36 years, this 150pp report, officially known as ‘The Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation’, written by […]
[…] images of MKUltra documents were provided to Intellnet by an anonymous donor. Archive of document images is at www.intellnet.org/mkultra Also on MKUltra and related fields: Report by CIA Inspector General on MKUltra: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0003.htm CIA IG’s memo on CB research at Fort Detrick: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0004.htm Influencing human behaviour: www.cryptome.org/ mkultra-0001.htm Covert research facility for biological and […]
[…] political turn they generally did not last long. Offi cial records from 1953 show that in British Guiana, the elected socialist government was overthrown by British and CIA terrorism in order to secure the flow of cheap sugar and bauxite. That was a busy year. The elected nationalist government in Iran met the same […]
[…] (London 1984) written with “the help of Western intelligence officials” (Sunday Times 11th March 1984), and actually two ex-members of MI5 and (I believe) two ex-members of CIA Counter Intelligence. One of the MI5 members, Arthur Martin, is part of the Hollis business. The book itself is appalling, turgid, repetitive, barely documented and, most […]
