[…] their thinking and decisions in directions compatible with American goals.’ (p. 118 Emphasis added.) (He says nothing about the use of labour attache’ positions as cover for CIA.) And there are one or two interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the […]
[…] Eye speculating that the World Wildlife Fund was some kind of cover for intelligence personnel. This thought cropped up once again with the obituary of the former CIA officer Donald Aspinall Allan (Washington Post, 5 August 2006 ). Allan’s career included spells at the New YorkTimes, Newsweek, the Reporter and the North American Newspaper […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the British state. ‘The instigators of the attack were not Private Eye satirists but professional rivals…..experts from the Sovietology world, Kremlinologists on the fringes of the CIA or MI6, other writers and journalists who specialized in Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] scandals of the Reagan/Bush years: October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, the arming of Iran and Iraq. And so Stich begins to learn about Mossad operations; factions within the CIA; assassination squads; drug dealing on a massive scale; corrupt politicians, judges etc. etc. He lists dozens of alleged CIA operations, personnel and front companies. This third […]
[…] narcotics, environment, cybersecurity GAO and Congressional reports, eg Information Security: Computer Attacks at DoD Pose Increasing Risks (GAO/AIMD-96-84)). Web Resources: huge resource of weblinks, relating to the CIA, NSA and other agencies (www.fas.org/irp/guide/index.html) Weblinks include to: Open Source Solutions (www.oss.net), a large resource on intelligence, including newsletter OSS Notices. Intelligence Online (www.indigo-net.com/intel.html). The electronic […]
[…] programmes traditionally have been implemented at gun-point, imposed by the US-dominated IMF on developing countries with the ever-present threat of political action – from economic sanctions, through CIA subversion up to full-blown coup – in the background. They have to be imposed by force because they are simply schemes whereby the imperialist powers (until […]
[…] 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 […]
