[…] of the covert activities described in Bloch and Fitzgerald’s British Intelligence and Covert Action reviewed in this issue. The Pentagon Papers may have been a CIA operation: Fletcher Prouty has long maintained this, and he was sitting at the focal point between the Agency and the Pentagon. And Verrier has certainly had an awful […]
[…] was (a) investigated at close range, (b) financially ruined and (c) eased out of rocket research. Or he could have been a combination of all three. L. Fletcher Prouty says in the book that he thinks Hubbard’s service records may have been ‘sheep dipped’. Whatever the history of this episode, Parsons, post-Hubbard, attracted further […]
[…] and reasonable. Lashmar ends the book unclear as to how much of this programme was known about by the politicians who were nominally in charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the […]
[…] 15% to prices; elsewhere add 20%. IMOs, sterling cheques or US dollars only, please. The Secret Team David Guyatt points out that the 1997 third edition of Fletcher Prouty’s classic 1973 book about the CIA, The Secret Team, is now available in e-format at http://www.ratical.com It comes complete with index, appendices, prefaces etc. It […]
[…] of note. The issues of Sept/October and November/December 95 carry a very striking piece in two parts (though the beef is in the second part) by L. Fletcher Prouty on the role of the US insurance business in the US Missing In Action (MIA) story. Prouty points out that National League of Families of […]
[…] in Lobster 30 (p. 21). He wanted me to make it clear that he has never said, in print, that he thought he had killed PC Yvonne Fletcher. In this issue of Lobster Page 2 begins an extract from a chapter from the new book by Peter Dale Scott. Scott is still the boss […]
[…] articles were Vialls’ fictionalised account of his experience of being a mind control victim; that in New Dawn was Vialls’ analysis of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. None of them contain any of Vialls political opinions; indeed, we have no idea what Vialls’ political opinions are. Neither, manifestly, does Searchlight.(2) The Vialls ‘book’ […]
[…] this. Palamara’s work, though badly organised, deserves a much wider audience.) The second JFK piece is a discussion by renowned JFK photographic expert, Jack White, of L. Fletcher Prouty’s identification of General Edward Lansdale in Dallas on 22 November 1963. Prouty identifies Lansdale and another CIA officer, Lucien Conein, in photographs taken in Dallas […]
[…] projected (but unrealised) trip by Joe Pearce to the Libyan embassy for fund-raising in February 1984, he never produced any solid proof.(24) The death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher would have closed off that avenue, and what were unquestionably NF internal documents in Anderson’s hand-writing (reproduced in Searchlight) show that by mid-1984 even the paying […]
[…] reference.'(49) In the public domain, Phil Andrews, speaking at a St George’s Day demonstration in Stoke, is reputed to have said of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an […]
