[…] continues to subsidise the right-wing Washington Times.12 Two deeper factors reinforce the continuity sketched in the preceding paragraph. One is the continuing involvement of regular or “rogue” CIA officers , such as Ray Cline or Edwin Wilson, at every stage.13 Another, not unrelated, is the recurring allegations that the China Lobby, the Unification Church […]
[…] US high technology found its way to Israel through Harari’s network. Harari’s main contact in the US is a figure often mentioned in the Contra investigations, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald […]
[…] has a big study of this, in two versions. The short one, in hard copy in Variant issue 27, is at and the full-length one is at CIA: on the CIA see , a French language list of names and some photographs; Carl Bernstein’s groundbreaking mid-1970s piece on the CIA and the media is […]
[…] aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s acute crisis today recalls in its details the political uncertainty at the end of the Sukarno era more than thirty […]
[…] exile group known as the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because it had collaborated […]
[…] history is known to Mowlam is not revealed in her memoirs. Nor does Mowlam respond to the speculation in Julia Langdon’s biography of her that she had CIA connections of her own. Hennessy History is the business of Peter Hennessy, but when asked to give the James Cameron Memorial Lecture to inquiring young journalism […]
[…] thrust of his theory is that the Twin Towers were brought down by ‘Mossad secret agents working with a cabal of US arms manufacturers, the FBI, the CIA and blessing of the US government’. Fair enough, some might say. However, Shayler then claims that the planes involved in the attacks were ‘missiles wrapped in […]
Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications […]
[…] Spencer Oliver’s phone? This is discussed elsewhere in this issue.) The senior Bush’s role as Republican National Committee chair during Watergate; and then as head of the CIA during the post Watergate period, notably the Team B episode which paved the way for the Second Cold War of the Reagan years. The October Surprise […]
[…] amateur an operation and he listed 14 points which indicated it was unlikely I had any involvement with the KGB. Bill Colby (former Director of the CIA) and ex-CIA officer Philip Agee also agreed it would not be possible to say that the tradecraft in my case was exclusive to the KGB. The […]
