[…] concern about foreign influence or interference.(13) The Lugar Report I draw these criteria from The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance, a 2006 report prepared by the NED for Senator Richard G. Lugar(14) who is dumbfounded that all the US’s largesse is rejected. But even though the report tells us that democracy building as a policy […]
[…] previously mentioned Coalition For Peace Through Strength. (CPS-US) Also speaking at the March 1982 British meeting were Morton Blackwell and Dick Minard. Blackwell was chief advisor to Senator Gordon Humphrey and Exec. Director of ECUD. He led the day-to-day assault on Warnke and represented, perhaps,’ the heart and soul of the ultra-conservative arm of […]
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
[…] and drug consultant to, the Center for International Development Policy, gathering information in support of the investigation into Drugs and Foreign Policy conducted at that time by Senator John Kerry. In that capacity I consulted with a number of experts in Washington inside and outside government. I was also a personal eyewitness to the […]
[…] the many, Hersh (in note 15); the new book by James Bamford, reviewed below; and the section under the names of Vice Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, Senator Carl Levin and Senator Richard Durbin at the end of the Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community and Prewar Intelligence […]
[…] MKULTRA records in financial files held by the Office of Technical Services which had not been indexed under the name MKULTRA. These documents became the subject of Senator Edward Kennedy’s hearings in 1977. The 1963 CIA Inspector General investigation report on MKULTRA states that the program was ‘concerned with research and development of chemical, […]
[…] this area.’ Among the half dozen senators supporting the programme, were Clairborne Pell and Robert C. Byrd . In the course of the programme, C. Richard D’Amoto, Senator Byrd’s staff member, and an intelligence specialist, several times successfully quashed DIA’s effort to kill the RV programme. British newspapers gave a variety of figures. The […]
[…] Ervin Watergate Committee. Such evasive tactics do not mean very much in today’s age of computerised intelligence. Revelations about Army surveillance of U.S. citizens before another of Senator Ervin’s Committee in 1970 had led to the formal termination of that programme on June 9, 1970, which we now know was four days after White […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. On September 21, 1976, a sophisticated bomb killed former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and an American friend while they were driving to work down Washington’s fashionable Embassy Row. Two weeks later, on October 6, a Cuban commercial airliner exploded in mid-air over the Caribbean, killing all 73 passengers … Read more
[…] and 159,705 veterans injured or ill. That is a casualty rate of 29.3% for combat related duties between 1990 and 1991! Details at < http://traprockpeace.org/gulf casualties.html > Senator Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, West Virginia) pointed out in the Senate on 26 September: ‘We have a paper trail. We not only know that Iraq has […]
