[…] mid-sixties through to the seventies. That is to say, he skips SIS involvement in the Baghdad Pact countries, and its successor, and in particular SIS involvement in Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan, which is a disappointment. It is also noticeable that the career of key SIS Diplomat GH (whom the public is not allowed to […]
[…] His assistant in this work was another former member of Goebbels’ propaganda ministry, Dr. Gerhardt Harmut von Schubert, who later moved on to a similar task in Iraq. (91) Skorzeny’s legitimisation by the CIA at Cairo gave him new status in the countries which had to worry about American public opinion: Germany, South Africa […]
[…] of the FOIA …… There are numerous dangers with having such a blanket exemption. One of the worst abuses came to light during the Matrix Churchill arms-to- Iraq case in 1992 when the government showed it was willing to see innocent people go to jail rather than disclose documents that proved it had secretly […]
[…] all this is the fact that the Carlyle Group’s representative on the QinetiQ board is George Tenet, the Director of the CIA at the time of the Iraq invasion. The Carlyle Group was established in 1987 to exploit tax loopholes in Alaska, but really only took off in 1989 when Ronald Reagan’s Secretary for […]
[…] Home Office, listed the countries whose police personnel had been trained in the UK during the previous four years. They included such ‘democratic’ countries as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uganda. In all, police officers from 72 countries have received training in Britain over the past […]
[…] On ‘9/11’ it even hints at a conspiracy. (The administration may have known it was coming but let it happen to give them the excuse to attack Iraq. It was all part of the Great Tribulation, after all.) So you can skip the theology, and still learn a lot. The influence of this kind […]
[…] years ago. His loyal former defence secretary, Lord Robertson, collected his a while back (see Lobster 51), but apparently Blair was advised that his unpopularity over the Iraq War and other US sycophancy would only be increased by being seen having the gong pinned on his lapel while The Stars and Stripes played loudly […]
[…] alleviating Brazil’s problems.” (Daily Telegraph 16 October 1983) The business world was extremely displeased with this. “Companies are astounded that having given £250 million export credit to Iraq last month, the Treasury continues to refuse half that amount to Brazil” (Times 12 November 1983) As the Observer said: “Brazil appears to have been singled […]
[…] San Jose Mercury News, detailing links between cocaine traffickers and the Nicaraguan contra network, plus links, including Covert Operations (Iran/contra; INSLAW affair; BNL affair – arming of Iraq by western nations including US, Britain, Germany, Italy; COINTELPRO lives – evidence suggests aspects of the program continue). Cold War Legacy http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/index.html Extract from Interim Report […]
[…] manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of the Pentagon’s role in post-war America. En route there are portraits of the leading figures, both military and […]
