[…] was then a short interval before the Congress was due to meet to confirm Allende’s election on 24 October. The record (‘Genesis of Project FUBELT’), of a CIA meeting called by Director Richard Helms ‘in connection with the Chilean situation’, shows a US determination to undermine Allende. It shows that Helms told those present: […]
[…] strange affair. It was really little more than a World in Action half hour from the late 1970s puffed-up, complete with redundant reconstruction of Wilson and Mar cia Falkender meeting BBC journalists Penrose and Courtiour (Pencourt). Is the TV audience now presumed to be incapable of watching half an hour of factual material? Do […]
[…] the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor thesis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To the latter’s account can be […]
[…] and Howard Friel reported that at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Robert Gates, Melvin Goodman former division chief of the Office of Soviet Analysis at the CIA said: ‘There was very good, sensitive DO evidence that suggested the Soviets were not linked to the assassination attempt on the Pope.’ The CIA, said Goodman […]
[…] Independent on Sunday (8 June) hinted that DeAnne Julius, one of Gordon Brown’s appointments to the Bank of England committee advising on interest rates, was a former CIA analyst, the Sunday Time (6 July) stated it as fact, but it was Nick Cohen in the Observer (19 October) who nailed it. Cohen’s ‘Why is […]
[…] the Pope One of the most successful major scale disinformation projects since Lobster was begun has been the KGB-shot-the-Pope story created by Brian Crozier’s chums in the CIA. Hardly anyone still believes this nonsense but this didn’t stop the Sunday Times running a very strange, thin version of the ‘KGB story’ on 9 January […]
[…] diverse circle of friends in international politics to build an anonymous action group, ‘transnational security organisation’, and to widen its field of operations. Crozier worked with the CIA for years. One has to assume, therefore, that they are fully aware of his activities. He has extensive connections with members, or more accurately, former members, […]
[…] project got underway. Overall it became known as Project PANDORA, and it included a number of parallel projects, such as Projects TUMS, MUTS, and BAZAR, involving the CIA, Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), the State Department, the Navy and the Army. They were tasked to study the effects of the emitted Soviet microwaves on […]
[…] Reuters report from Moscow, the Soviet Union denied that a missing Korean Airlines jumbo jet had been forced to land on Sakhalin.” Now, those “early reports” had CIA authority, and went as such to Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow and Anchorage – and thence, via Washington, to relatives of American passengers. Was it a simple error? […]
[…] and refers readers’ enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number 36) contains a grim but well researched piece by John Kelly about postwar CIA collaboration with Nazi doctors in radiation experiments in the US, and much other stuff of interest. Despite its frequent typos, Unclassified is a very valuable resource. […]
