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 […]
Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close … Read more
[…] decided to allocate Wallace more definitively to what was known as Information Policy. This was the mutation moment in Wallace’s career. He was to engage in highly secret and controversial work….’ The use of the words ‘was to’ is thoroughly misleading in that it conceals the fact that I had been working for Information […]
[…] had apparently not been released into the public domain. In The Independent (24 August 1998) Paul Lashmar, in ‘Pearl Harbour conspiracy is bunk’, reported that the ‘ secret file’ believed to contain the aforementioned ‘secret telegram’ had been released into the Public Record Office – and there was no secret telegram. In response to […]
[…] to have been in Paris on the night of the crash was Richard Dearlove, the then Director of Operations. In 1998 he became Assistant Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service and the following February he succeeded Sir David Spedding as Chief. See Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Spy chief comes out of shadows’, The Guardian 26 February […]
[…] is underway. Kevin McClure wrote about this in the second editon of his new newsletter Abduction Watch. Although the content of the stories varies from claims of secret British operations to cover-up the murder and mutilation of British citizens by aliens, to more mundane tales of secret bases and secret military units, the seven […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] UK. £45 This is a magnificent reference book which will prove indispensable to anyone interested in politics. It is a godsend to academics, activists, researchers, journalists and secret policemen. Although the author is politically more to what most people would term ‘the right’, this work is written, as the publisher’s blurb correctly puts it, […]
[…] since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help “create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power”. Working under this extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name the Iraqi National Congress and served as their media guru and […]
[…] March reports that a presidential commission has recommended shrinking the USA intelligence agencies while leaving their structure fundamentally unchanged. The report recommends revealing the size of the secret intelligence budget (estimated at $26-28 billion per year) and giving enhanced power to the Director of Central Intelligence to manage all thirteen spook agencies. The bi-partisan […]
