[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] London, 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. (6) […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] that and nothing else. Students of Big Jim, ignore this book at their peril. Available in the U.K. as an import. Lane, Mark. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991. xvi plus 393 pp. Illustrated, index. Lane’s account of the Liberty Lobby defence he […]
