[…] interview with one Clifton DeMotte about Edward Kennedy and Chappaquiddick – had been suggested to Hunt, not by the White House, but by Robert Bennett himself. (60) Senator Baker’s Minority Report about this and other CIA aspects of Watergate was, in turn, grossly distorted by the Post. (61). This is hardly surprising; the Baker […]
[…] accused the CIA of sabotaging weapons inspections in Iraq by refusing to co-operate fully with the UN and withholding crucial information about Saddam Hussein’s arsenal. Led by Senator Carl Levin, the Democrats accused the CIA of making an assessment that the inspections were unlikely to be a success and then ensuring they would not […]
[…] is classified, and the US government will neither confirm nor deny their existence. The Human Potential Foundation In October 1992, the Human Potential Foundation (HPF), chaired by Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, embarked on a project to deliver to the White House compelling evidence of the reality of UFOs, in the hope of […]
[…] a company devoted to producing better equipped American children, making educational software available to schools – at a price. Consultants to the firm include Bill Brock, former senator and chair of the Republican National Committee; Bob Stearns, a George W. appointee to a Texas technology board; Peter Su, a former presidential campaign advisor, and […]
[…] Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S. Adams, USAF (retd.), former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. (4) They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility […]
Political activist Daniel Ellsberg and Professor Alfred McCoy have something special in common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an … Read more
[…] MKULTRA records in financial files held by the Office of Technical Services which had not been indexed under the name MKULTRA. These documents became the subject of Senator Edward Kennedy’s hearings in 1977. The 1963 CIA Inspector General investigation report on MKULTRA states that the program was ‘concerned with research and development of chemical, […]
[…] this area.’ Among the half dozen senators supporting the programme, were Clairborne Pell and Robert C. Byrd . In the course of the programme, C. Richard D’Amoto, Senator Byrd’s staff member, and an intelligence specialist, several times successfully quashed DIA’s effort to kill the RV programme. British newspapers gave a variety of figures. The […]
[…] Ervin Watergate Committee. Such evasive tactics do not mean very much in today’s age of computerised intelligence. Revelations about Army surveillance of U.S. citizens before another of Senator Ervin’s Committee in 1970 had led to the formal termination of that programme on June 9, 1970, which we now know was four days after White […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. On September 21, 1976, a sophisticated bomb killed former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and an American friend while they were driving to work down Washington’s fashionable Embassy Row. Two weeks later, on October 6, a Cuban commercial airliner exploded in mid-air over the Caribbean, killing all 73 passengers … Read more
