[…] Europe than hostility to the Soviet Union.I gather that among some British communists the idea that anything wrong with the Soviet Union is the result of the CIA is known as ‘James Bondism’. On a visit to the US I saw a book in a library – whose title I’ve forgotten – which investigated […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] be thought to be encouraging the crazier end of the UFO conspiracy world but among the mountains of documents in Armen Victorian’s possession is a purported 1962 CIA document reporting the results of phone-taps of conversations between the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and a friend of hers, one Howard Rothberg. Rothberg told Kilgallen that Monroe […]
[…] disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon correspondent of the U.S. television network ABC called ‘reliable CIA sources’.’ Few disinformation stories can be traced back to their sources, but in this instance Morgan got close. The former contra leader, Edgar Chamorro, told her […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] America’ which paid for the American tendency in Labour to spend the 1950s visiting America, getting published and building careers. It was the State Department and the CIA. This is completely missing from Pearce’s account. And it has been omitted. Even if Pearce is unaware of the work of the Richard Fletcher (1) and […]
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 […]
