[…] when he brought his brand of clever, witty and vigorous exposure to bear on the Blair government in 1998. For detailing the corruption at the heart of New Labour in his Lobbygate reports in The Observer (see Lobsters 36 and 38), Palast was branded a liar on the front page of the then Blair-backing […]
[…] advocating the revolutionary use of psychedelics to undo contemporary social conditioning; he also refers to Stark, in 1969, meeting ‘associates of the Black Mask/ Motherfuckers group in New York’ at Frendz (sic). (The New York Motherfuckers’ views on revolutionary violence can be inferred from their statement in praise of Valerie Solanas’ shooting of Andy […]
[…] Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan’s last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient […]
[…] most interest on reading the book version. In one section pp.48-49 (which also appeared in the Sunday Times on 4 February) Tomlinson describes how his intake of new SIS recruits were briefed by the then SIS chief McColl. One of the new recruits put the obvious question: ‘ “Sir, why do we have an […]
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood ( New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) […]
The New Pearl Harbour: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 David Ray Griffin Northampton, Mass.: Olive Tree Press/Interlink 2004, $15.00, p/back available at Putting this out in America took some courage. Most of the content of this book is so far off the mainstream radar as to be invisible. A professor […]
[…] than the occasional generosity of its readers. Notes on Contributors Peter Dale Scott teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley. He has just finished a new book, Cocaine Politics. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales. He is the co-author of Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) and is currently […]
Tim Weiner New York: Doubleday, 2007, h/b, $27.95 This book’s existence is a surprising development. The author is a New York Times journalist and for one of the NYT’s writers to produce a critical study of the CIA is unprecedented to my knowledge, and tells us much about the diminished status of the […]
[…] the press, just as they may do today, for all I know, they made their fury felt.’ Angleton’s ghost A wonderful piece of disinformation appeared in a New York Times editorial (7 January ’90) speculating on what we might learn from the Soviet Union now that the Cold War is over. Under the heading […]
[…] contra effort. The details of this insanely complex affair now fill a 600-page volume called Compromised by John Cummings and Terry Reed, published by SPI books ( New York, 1994, $23.95) Briefly: Terry Reed functioned as an army intelligence officer during Vietnam, turning to civilian spookery in the late 70s. In 1982 he met […]
