[…] of our readers follow the WRP fragments and has further information on this, please let us know. The WRP’s great sin in the eyes of the British secret state was, I presume, its financial support by Libya. It seems clear that contact with Libya is taken very seriously by our spooks. Ron Brown MP […]
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford, New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back, $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back, $29.95 These books cover some […]
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler […]
[…] first Bond-like rendezvous, but it would certainly be the most startling. We had agreed to meet in order that the source could tell me about a highly secret US operation known as ‘Black Dog.’ Neither of us trusted electronic communication and, therefore, a face-to-face meeting was essential. The meeting followed a story I had […]
[…] Avenue, Boston MA 02116 USA. $8 paper, $20 hardback. As far as I know there are no plans to publish it in the UK yet. The Belarus Secret John Loftus (Penguin, London 1983) Very impressive slim volume on the recruitment of the fascist members of the Byelorussian community by British and American intelligence shortly […]
[…] Phillips/”Bishop”. Arguelles has written a book, The Cubans in the US: Displacement and Terror (Holt, Rinehart and Winston). (b) In 1983 Jim Hougan, author of Spooks and Secret Agenda, spoke with ex-CIA man Frank Terpil. He told Hougan that he knew Phillips but only under the cover name “Bishop”. Terpil says he met “Bishop” […]
eds. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Andrew Lownie Edinburgh University Press, 1992. This worthy, but expensive, anthology of ten essays ranges widely from the obscure ‘ secret operations of Spanish consular officials within Canada during the Spanish-American war’ to the useful account of the ‘birth of the Defense Intelligence Agency’. In between are a number of […]
The Spy who came in from the Co-op David Burke Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The author was conducting a series of interviews with 87-year old Melita Norwood about her childhood among a group of pro-Soviet radical exiles in England in the 1920s and 30s, when it was revealed in the press, via … Read more
[…] the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident to the Arabian Gulf in 2003, little seems to have changed in the United States’ approach to starting war. Ellsberg’s account of secret White House activity in the wake of the Tonkin incident shows how initial ineptitude was turned into cynical manipulation to create the pretext for ramping up […]
[…] spies using undercover techniques ranging from the sex trap to lavish hospitality'(9); teaching models for schools: ‘Ask students to chose a spy from history and create a secret fact file on their chosen spy, giving personal details as well as summaries of their main missions’; (10) and a research, publishing and tourism industry growing […]
