[…] IRIS, both events taking place in late 1956. In Lobster 19 and in The Clandestine Caucus I suggested that the post-1956 Common Cause must have been a CIA operation because of the presence on its post-1956 board of two men with links to the CIA. I now think this is probably false. The revelation […]
[…] is no reference to the Digest’s post-war activities on the political right, let alone the recent allegation by Fred Landis, that it has been working with the CIA. On p. 255 the author states:’the details of Watergate hardly need retelling’ – as if anyone is actually clear what was really going on. (Anyone who […]
Orwellian control, public denial, and the murder of President Kennedy E. Martin Schotz Kurtz, Ulmer and DeLu cia, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1996 Distributed in the UK by Plough Publishing House (at 01580 883344), £15.50 This is a very odd book. It is beautifully printed, bound and laid-out – a pleasure to handle. Unfortunately the content […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
