[…] 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 […]
As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] number of minor inaccuracies it includes one major misrepresentation, namely that the European Movement, of which I was director between 1969 and 1986, received funding from the CIA and that the accounting structure of the Movement was designed to hide this fact. When Mr. Mullen interviewed me for the purposes of his article he […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] The only real multiracial political grouping in Fiji was/is the Labour Party. In his Rogue State (p. 153) William Blum gives a brief account of an apparent CIA operation concerning Fiji in 1987. (1) In April of that year, within a month of his winning a democratic election, Prime Minister Bavrada of the Labour […]
[…] The British and American systems’ senior intelligence personnel used last-minute information which purported to show that Iraq was a threat. In the USA the Director of the CIA and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colin Powell, used the now notorious ‘uranium from Niger’ scam – based on crudely forged documents (6) – […]
[…] Clinton done that could possibly be compared with, for example, the Savings and Loan rip-off, the biggest financial scandal in US history? NEWMAN, JOHN. Oswald and the CIA. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995. xviii + 627 pps. Illustrated, notes (incorporating bibliography), index. Newman, known for his magisterial study, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, […]
[…] the Labour Party. (25) Haseler worked for the ‘left-face’ of the US National Strategy Information Centre (NSIC)one of the funders of Brian Crozier’s Forum World Features, a CIA front. He co-authored Eurocommunism with the NSIC’s Roy Godson, who ‘helped Oliver North channel contributions from private donors to the contras by using the Heritage Foundation […]
[…] of Space Aliens from the Pentagon. In a flyer for his excellent catalogue Flatland,(2) Jim Martin comments: ‘Whatta title. Lyne claims info on man-made saucers, Nazi tech, CIA disinfo on free energy motors that power them. Plausible premise, but announcing how he saw Adolf and Eva Hitler in San Antone with LBJ in ’67 […]
