[…] American academic writes a long piece bemoaning the inability of the US intelligence services to accurately predict world events. The latest example is from Allen Goodman (ex CIA) in Foreign Policy, Winter 1984/85. It’s the usual catalogue of disasters, and the usual catalogue of ignorance and self-deception. These academics are always either surprised or […]
[…] and file” candidate’ for the SDP presidency in 1981. Now it may be true that Haseler is not the important figure in starting the SDP ball rolling CIA asset Brian Crozier claims in his 1993 book Free Agent, but there can be little doubt that he had a considerable transatlantic role before and during […]
[…] Clancy novel: technically feasible, but not necessarily plausible. The Black Dog mission is another matter. In this elaborate tale a spe cially-modified S-3A Viking, flown by the CIA and carrying both chemical and biological weapons crashes in Iraq. A daring recovery operation is then carried out by an ultra-secret special operations team. The premise […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] tidying-up the loose ends on the ground), followed by a sophisticated CIA-directed cover-up, perhaps? In Lobster 23 I hypothesized, semi-seriously, that the straw which finally triggered the CIA to remove JFK was his support for the rapprochement between the Christian Democrats and the Italian Socialist Party — the so-called apertura a sinistra in Italy. […]
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 […]
