[…] includes belief in racial and other dominance, but leaves them unable to cope in a market-place where: a) the ‘prestige’ (for want of another word) of former CIA or SIS employment may be a hindrance rather than a help; b) they have to compete with sophisticated others, including diasporas who have years of pooled […]
[…] 12, 1980), a version taken from one put out in book form (though it would be a very thin book) by ‘Fighting Tigers’, a subsidiary of the CIA front company, Air America. This version contained material added to the original 1976 version. Gemstone also appeared in the American porno mag, the Hustler, in 1979, […]
[…] anti-Castro Cuban end; and the anti-Castro Cubans were awash in American money and case officers. The politi cians may not have known but I would bet the CIA and the military did. Robert Kennedy played the Nixon role in the original Bay of Pigs plan: he was the White House action officer. The Kennedys […]
Extracts from what are claimed to be CIA analyses of Israeli intelligence services found when the US embassy in Iran was taken have been published in Imam, October 1983 through to May 1984. 17 pages in all. To this untrained eye they look genuine; ie dull enough to be genuine. There is nothing that […]
[…] to have been given the bum’s rush all the way down the ladder to Lobster. He told me a very strange story about his persecution by the CIA using ELF devices. My scepticism was modified by knowing of Anthony Verney’s experience, but I found it difficult to decide if my visitor was a genuine […]
[…] is a recent term for a range of activities hitherto called propaganda, public relations, advertising and psy-ops. So while this book could have been been about the CIA, IRD, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its little UK cousin, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and all those American interventions in the Soviet bloc […]
[…] with five chairs in Mexican and Latin American Studies. Batholomew doesn’t prove this Rambler was the one in Dealey Plaza but he explores the LBJ, right-wing, and CIA connections on campus and in this part of Texas to great effect. Inconclusive and fascinating. Benson, Michael. Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-Z Encyclopedia. […]
[…] job was to co-ordinate the various police and intelligence services (SDECE, DST, Surete, RG.) (15) It was rumoured that he was associated with Radio Free Europe (a CIA project) and the U.S. Air Force’s think-tank, Rand Corporation. Melnik had joined the Rassemblement des Gauches Republicaines whose secretary general, Jean-Louis David, was founder of the […]
[…] by Malcolm Macintosh. The results changed the whole emphasis in tackling Russian targets, produced expert briefing for potential sources and for the interrogation of deserters and defectors. CIA eagerly followed the British example. The success of the enterprise was underlined by Mackintosh taking over the Soviet desk in the Cabinet Office, a post he […]
Efraim Karsh Yale University Press, 2006; 276 pp. For anyone who believes that ‘imperialism’ is an exclusively Western phenomenon, that Islam has only been the victim of it, and that 9/11 was simply a reaction to that (‘blowback’), this book will come as a bit of a shock. Karsh argues that aggressive imperialism was […]
