[…] communities in the post-9/11 world. The book wrestles with these key questions: how is it that the super-rationalist West, with all of the massive resources of the CIA, TIARA (Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities) and SIS, were completely unable to stop a few guys with Stanley knives flying jet planes into the World Trade […]
[…] of the government’s crimes against us continue, in full force, and are on the increase. Moreover, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration , under the guidance of ‘ex’- CIA agents, is funding thousands of projects to experiment and establish a police-state apparatus with all those techniques the CIA has perfected against other countries. Virtually all […]
[…] in which he stated: ‘Previously, I have considered going to the State Department and having them ask the British government to intervene. I have learned that the CIA has asked the British intelligence and the Police to assist in resolving problems with Victorian.’ US military intelligence It is not only John Alexander and his […]
[…] seasoned campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and important texts have not been referred to. […]
[…] morally and emotionally, for the anti-Soviet crusade which has provided SIS with its raison d’etre in the post-war years? It seems unlikely. It certainly hasn’t for the CIA. Somebody said recently that the CIA is a crusade or it is nothing. Former CIA Director William Colby wasn’t being ironic when he called his memoir […]
[…] of Heroin In South East Asia (US 1973) which documented US involvement in the opium traffic of the Golden Triangle and got McCoy into trouble with the CIA. But this volume is exactly what its title suggests, and is unlikely to be of too much interest to anyone with out a specialised interest in, […]
[…] Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue to make it look like the Catholic Diem was responsible, they could back Kennedy into […]
[…] plan to use British Nazis to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival – fortunately thwarted). Herman and Brodhead argue that there is no hard evidence to suggest the CIA led or even allowed the plot against the Pope. The KGB certainly look less guilty than the CIA. But the CIA played a crucial role in […]
[…] July 1984) Defectors’ stories are bound to be suspect. How much credence would the world have given to Phillip Agee had he published his book on the CIA while living in Moscow? The non-defector books are hardly more encouraging. Take two recent examples, John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand (London 1983) and Dezinformatzia […]
[…] Social Democratic Party (See Lobster 31 et seq). Attending the Jerusalem conference in 1979 were George Bush (father of George W. with at that time only the CIA directorship on his political CV), his former Langley colleague Ray Cline, Perle, Ledeen, Congressman Jack Kemp, Senator John Danforth and Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson. The last […]
