[…] aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s acute crisis today recalls in its details the political uncertainty at the end of the Sukarno era more than thirty […]
[…] American academic writes a long piece bemoaning the inability of the US intelligence services to accurately predict world events. The latest example is from Allen Goodman (ex CIA) in Foreign Policy, Winter 1984/85. It’s the usual catalogue of disasters, and the usual catalogue of ignorance and self-deception. These academics are always either surprised or […]
[…] deny this seems perverse; but the authors would have rather perverse judgements than the real world. At one point they refer to ‘the supposed role of the CIA in the overthrow of Chilean leftist president Salvatore Allende’ (p. 35) Yet the documents, official US government documents, which show the CIA’s involvement in the overthrow […]
[…] ACSI agreed with the method applied to enhance their conventional interrogation standards. Although little concern was shown, the question of co-ordination with other agencies such as the CIA and FBI was raised. The final decision was made that the co-ordination with the other agencies would be postponed until after the conclusion of the field […]
[…] mud in the pool; and we got more than enough mud already.(2) Knightsbridge news Mohamed Al-Fayed’s law suit – all 40 pages of it – against the CIA, DIA, NSA et al for denying him documents under the Freedom of Information Act which he believes they possess was posted on the Net on 1 […]
[…] the ACC turned for help to Cuban exiles and members of Sun Myung Moon’s Freedom Leadership Foundation. The Moon group (linked by Tongsun Park to the Korean CIA) was supplied with pro-junta propaganda by Chile’s Washington lobbyist, Dimitru Danielopol, a veteran of the CIA-subsidised Copley News Service and former spokesman (in collaboration with Senator […]
[…] the American people at a great cost to liberty.’ For thirty years the NSA obtained copies of most telex messages entering and leaving the U.S., and the CIA illegally intercepted thousands of first-class letters as they left the country. If the high-tech NSA were ever turned against us, Church said, ‘no American would have […]
[…] source of what was supposed to be off-the-record briefing, was given as deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations, Bryan Whitman.’(22) CIA and Indonesia ‘Ghosts Of A Genocide: The CIA, Suharto And Terrorist Culture’, a long account of the American (and minor British) involvement in the slaughter in […]
Parish Notices Thanks to Robin Whittaker (in particular), Terry Hanstock, Simon Matthews, Grattan Healey, David Turner, Jane Affleck, Harlan Girard, Anthony Frewin and Tom Easton for cuttings and other material since the last issue. Two years into New Labour and the loudest sound is the sound of surprise being expressed by people who ought to […]
[…] has interviews about JFK (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and […]
