[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Werbell. Then he met Syliva Odio; and from her the anti-Castro Cuban leader of Alpha 66, Antonio Ve ciana — and from Veciana he heard of the CIA officer Veciana worked with, ‘Maurice Bishop’, identified tentatively as David Attlee Phillips. He was then hired to work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations — […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Milan. Indeed, it was in Milan that they centred their non-US operations. Politically unstable and financially corrupt, Italy was a peculiar choice. It was, however, central to CIA operations in Europe. London was still a rival financial centre and Paris only a part-time ally of the US after DeGaulle. The later history of Andersen […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] he could do because 85% of the land in Nevada was owned or controlled by the federal authorities. The rest was owned mostly by the Mob. The CIA found Vegas as useful for laundering money as the Mob. When Hank Greenspan, the local semi-liberal and ‘crusading’ newspaper editor died – he was as close […]
