[…] us that on seven separate occasions in the build-up to the war on Iraq editor Alton refused to publish well-sourced stories from its US correspondent that the CIA knew that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Ed Vulliamy repeatedly filed his on-the-record account with supporting documentation from Mel Goodman, the former head […]
[…] British Youth Council.(53) The British Youth Council began as the British section of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), which was set up and financed by the CIA and SIS in the early 1950s to combat the Soviet Union’s youth fronts.(54) By Mandelson’s time in the mid-1970s – under a Labour government – the […]
[…] Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. […]
[…] when Seal told his handlers that cocaine was being trans-shipped through Nicaragua with the permission of high-level government officials. In an effort to frame the Sandinistas, the CIA installed a hidden camera in Seal’s C-130 cargo plane (the same plane, incidentally, that later crashed in Nicaragua leading to the capture of Eugene Hasenfus in […]
[…] associates at Stoy. Given this, it is possible that he was merely a conduit for Cold War funds from other sources, either MI6 or, more likely, the CIA. Berlusconi Andersen’s government contacts don’t stop there. With the election of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994, Italy nearly became the first Western country to be run from […]
[…] he laundered for his friends and allies, including the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Christian Democrats (some of which was provided by the CIA), and similar sums for the Mafia – in the main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges […]
[…] 11 Sept. sourcebook Volume 1 Edited by Jeffery Richelson and Michael L. Evans, it includes documents relating to terrorism and Usama Bin Laden; assessments of terrorist threat; CIA profile of UBL; Congressional Research Service Reports; GAO reports, including 20 Sept. 2001 report on combatting terrorism; Presidential Directives and Executive Orders. Network Against the Terrorism […]
[…] intervention in the Indian sub-continent and the pivotal point for clandestine military assistance to the Afghan rebels – still the largest per-capita finan cial commitment in the CIA budget. In Zia, the US found an enthusiastic partner in the bid to arm and support the most reactionary Islamic factions in the mojahedin. Pakistan’s strategic […]
[…] security’ priority. Just as the Cold War was a politico-military process, globalisation is set to become a politico-financial one. And just as intelligence agencies such as the CIA and MI6 became not merely political observers but also political players in the Cold War, so might we expect them to remain not simply observers of […]
[…] with a reputation for physically abusing suspects, espe cially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and […]
