[…] however, is decently produced and a ‘clean’ read. The story of the drug culture of the sixties and seventies is important and entertaining; and while it still leaves all the loose ends loose – was the whole thing a CIA social experiment which ran amok? – this is the best account we have to date.
[…] by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to jump out a window, decided that ‘mind control’ of the Manchurian Candidate variety did […]
[…] deny this seems perverse; but the authors would have rather perverse judgements than the real world. At one point they refer to ‘the supposed role of the CIA in the overthrow of Chilean leftist president Salvatore Allende’ (p. 35) Yet the documents, official US government documents, which show the CIA’s involvement in the overthrow […]
[…] Independent of 23 June 1993, commented that ‘she stood by him loyaly, convinced that he was the victim of an international plot involving double agents and the CIA.’ Well, something like that. Mrs Nixon’s death was announced only a week after Channel 4 TV’s Dispatches series broadcast a Barbara Newman documentary, ‘The Key to […]
[…] it doesn’t actually substantiate the claim made by ‘Torbitt’ for which it is offered as evidence. I’m reasonably certain that ‘Torbitt’ is disinformation, probably produced by the CIA in the wake of the Garrison inquiry. It may even have been a response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, a couple of years before. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] intelligence agents illegal, West wrote an article in The Times condemning the BlochFitzgerald and Verrier books for publishing ‘names ‘ . He also cited the case of CIA officer Richard Walsh who was assassinated in Athens in the late seventies following, it is claimed, his naming by Philip Agee. In actual fact, this 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
