[…] 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 […]
[…] to provide, when spook and non-spook Arab specialists alike had warned of what would happen. In turn, some spooks although I understand this applies to the CIA rather than to the SIS blamed their exiled ‘kings-in-waiting’ for supplying information that, not surprisingly, advanced the latter’s singular objective: to replace Saddam Hussein as […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] also opposed by former head of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Thomas Moorer; beltway luminary the late Clark Clifford; former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; guardedly by former CIA chief Richard Helms; and by the surviving crew, who have maintained an active campaign for a congressional inquiry. Former Sunday Times chief reporter and broadcaster, Peter […]
From Ian Cameron Since reading certain recent somewhat naff offhand Lobster comments (1) in connection with the reissue of Gordon Carr’s Angry Brigade by Christie Books, I’ve looked at the book and a few other bits’n’pieces. So, it all led nowhere, and rightly so? Lobster isn’t the first and won’t be the last to mythologise. […]
[…] out of the conspiracy — I discovered that editor and publisher Hertz had exotic tastes. One article concerned the inevitable Illuminati, another tackled the apparent (to Hertz) CIA connections of the suicide-prone cult led by Jim Jones in Guyana, and still another reviewed Edward Jay Epstein’s summary of Kennedy assassination theories from an old […]
[…] 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 […]
Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]
[…] out of Vietnam and seems to have acquired a more rational appreciation of the situation there than the Americans did. After 1966 the counter-intelligence section of the CIA, headed by the loony James Angleton, came to believe that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent; and CIA counter-intelligence was the ultimate source of […]
