[…] details from my book. I didn’t have to worry though as the man who brought out Philip Agee’s A CIA Diary (Penguin 1975), Neil Middleton knew what security was about. But that didn’t stop the spooks. . Someone still managed to steal (from Penguin’s offices) all the BOSS documents and various other papers which […]
[…] account of the events that lead up to the Islamic Revolution of 1979 that overthrew the hated regime of the ‘Shah of Persia’ and his equally hated security and police apparatus; explains why the revolution took the form of both a nationalist struggle and a religious one; and what the results of this have […]
[…] those who find that this real-life thriller occasionally turns into a dogged paper chase. This outstanding study makes an imperative case for a radical overhaul of the security services in a society professing to be a democracy. A complimentary ‘novel based upon a fact’, as the author, David Peace puts it, brilliantly adds to […]
[…] in courageously pursuing his theme that laundered money corrupts the wider economy. He concludes: “Money laundering by criminal or terrorist groups has far-reaching implications for the world’s security.’ As in his earlier BCCI book, Kochan shows a subtle understanding of the role of British bank regulators in dealing with these corrupt practices. The evidence […]
[…] Army intelligence officer and CIA contract agent. In the Fall of 1964, Kimsey, having retired from the CIA with Dulles, was working with McDonald, then Chief of Security for Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Kimsey allegedly told McDonald at that time details of the plot to kill Kennedy. The actual assassin, Kimsey maintained, was […]
[…] laundering machine in Panama.'(22) According to Castillo, the entire program was run out of Ilopango’s Hangars 4 and 5: ‘The CIA owned one hangar and the National Security Council ran the other.'(23) Castillo also reported that the CIA in El Salvador requested a U.S. visa for one Contra pilot listed by the DEA as […]
[…] Bob Oeschler, who claims to have worked on a U.S. government-funded program working with crashed alien craft; retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency; and retired Rear Admiral Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. As a former NSA head, Inman’s evidence in particular is quite a […]
[…] widow in 1975 was the link with Korean biowar experiments not ‘mind control’. Eric Olsen now regards the latter as disinformation. Illustrating the continuity in American national security circles is the fact that a declassified 1975 White House memorandum which suggested the settlement and compensation for Olsen’s widow, was written by the then Deputy […]
[…] It’s time to confront the reality that these agencies themselves, and their own sponsorship and protection of terrorist activities, have aggravated the greatest threats to our national security. Scott Ritter and others have written that, at this very moment, CIA-backed bombings are being undertaken in Iran by the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK or MKO), an […]
[…] influence to bring together several disparate factions and groupings into C18’ (p. 2). There was speculation of a possible intelligence input, that of the ‘South African state security services’ (p. 3), though the only evidence offered was the presence of some anti-Apartheid individuals on the Redwatch hit-lists. The contribution by Searchlight publisher Gerry Gable […]
