[…] is suspected of being the KGB man who reaps the goodies gathered by people who are possibly as disapproving of the KGB as they are of the CIA. like this have been operating in France and Sweden. (Agee has been in contact with the Swedish set up.) The security services feel that once the […]
[…] from international relations to crime and commerce – sometimes, I am told, turning a blind eye to some crime if it was in multinational or, for example, CIA interest – without winning the hearts and minds of his own colleagues. This, I understand, not spending cuts, was the basis of the reported ‘poor morale’ […]
[…] of Steamshovel Press Number Ten. It shows President Kennedy with the late Mary Meyer, in September 1963. Mary Pinchot Meyer was then separated from her husband, senior CIA officer Cord Meyer, one of the OSS members who became the first dominating clique within the Agency. (I’d never seen a picture of Mary Meyer before.) […]
[…] More than 33% suspect that the US Navy, either by accident or design, shot down TWA flight 800; More than 50% believe it is possible that the CIA ‘intentionally permitted Central American drug dealers to sell cocaine to inner-city black children’. 60% believe that the government is withholding information about Agent Orange and other […]
[…] to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had the CIA not come […]
[…] is revealed as a member. (Observer 5 October 1986.) I believe, though can’t prove yet, that MRA was one of the hundreds of groups funded by the CIA after WW2 – Tom Driberg suggested this in his 1961(?) The Mystery of Moral Rearmament. Thus far the mass media in this country seem unaware that […]
[…] captives of their Whitehall sources. In fact this is more interesting than I expected. In this instance Adams has persuaded some of the big cheeses from the CIA and the Russian intelligence service to talk to him, as well as SIS and MI5, and the result is a kind of survey of the new […]
[…] delegate — the Reverend Michael Bourdeaux, Director of Keston — was refused a visa by the Soviet authorities. (Guardian 11 October ’89) The Jamestown Foundation, the ‘private’ CIA operation to handle Soviet-bloc defectors; see, for example, ‘Communist turmoil brings exodus of Cold War spies’, in Guardian 9 December ’89. The late Joseph Josten. And […]
[…] in a larger conspiracy.'(23) Gerald Posner believes that Paul was in regular contact with the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), the French equivalent of the CIA, ‘an arrangement not unheard of among security staffers at premier international hotels.’ He also claims that Paul ‘spent the last several hours before the crash with […]
[…] conflict between research into conspiracies and ‘the systemic view’. What Berlet seems unwilling to acknowledge is that within a ‘systemic view’ of the United States (or the CIA, or the Congress-Presidency relationship, or whatever) there are going be conspiracies of individuals: and when the individuals are as powerful as, say, senior CIA personnel, the […]
