The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

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[PDF file]: […] 1961, though, MacMillan seemed in serious disarray, badly behind in the polls and widely mocked by many of the UK intelligentsia. There is also evidence that the spy scandals of 1962-1963 caused many in the US to finally lose patience with their British allies.2 9 Coupled with the emergence of Wilson as the next […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

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[PDF file]: […] late 70s she still read voraciously about America’s foreign and domestic policies, and regularly entertained former CIA counter-intelligence chief James Angleton, for what the two called ‘ Spy chat’.1 A dedicated anti-communist and dyed-in-the-wool Republican, she had served as a Representative for Connecticut between 1943 and 1947, becoming acquainted with the up-and-coming Lyndon Johnson […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

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[PDF file]: […] Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zur Lippe-Biesterfeld at Jena in Information on Commander Cohen is available at . 3 See the AP news feed story ‘Lid blows off spy ring in Swiss capital’, The Straits Times (English-language newspaper in Singapore) 16 June 1957 at or 4 See Thomas Riegler, ‘The State as a Terrorist: France […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

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[PDF file]: […] government sat on the bank’s board of directors. One of the high points of Noriega’s cooperation was Operation Pisces, a Duane R. Clarridge and Digby Diehl, A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster) 2002, pp. 237, 342. 10 11 Newsday, January 31, 1992. Steve Albert, The […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] the JFK researchers are coming – and Hunt was a right-wing cold warrior. Hunt’s naming of LBJ to his son was prefigured in his 2007 memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, written before his ‘confession’, which contained this paragraph: ‘Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency […]

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