[…] the post from Professor John Vincent, a copy of the September issue of East-West Digest. This had the reputation in left-wing circles of being funded by the CIA. Vincent appended a note saying, ‘I thought this would interest you’ to an unsigned article, ‘Strategy of Destruction: the ILP Re-Assessed’ – By a Special Correspondent’, […]
[…] the NUS’s press and publicity officer. IRIS had been formed in 1956 as the industrial wing of Common Cause — my choice as the place where the CIA spent some of its money in the UK. See the essay in Lobster 19. Nash’s former role as an employee of the ICFTU presumably explains the […]
[…] was Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay, later, if not at the time, a member of MI6. Ramsay, a student friend of Foulkes, was secretary of FISC, an alleged CIA front operation. Foulkes went on to become Scottish organiser of the European Movement and director of the European League for Economic Co-operation, an organisation which likewise […]
[…] from the diplomatic service continued to influence British politicians through his work at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. One son Roy, a close friend of CIA chief William Casey, continued in a similar line of work with British trade unionists, while also having a hand in the Iran-Contra affair. Other son Dean, […]
[…] book and TV documentary that Frank Olsen, the American army scientist who was thrown out of a hotel window in 1953, after being given LSD by the CIA, had been working on biological weapons. A work colleague and friend of Olsen’s, Norman Cournoyer, told the German authors that the American Air Force had indeed […]
[…] Sweden, Greece and Switzerland. Characteristically, this directive includes a special notice which authorized its distribution to the Allied Intelligence Services of Great Britain, including the United States CIA. Question Could you tell us some of the BIS actions aimed at the Soviet Union? K.P. I could illustrate your question in conjunction with the tourist […]
[…] of the organisation’s appearance and the particular ‘pitch’ it is offering. If this was the 1950s or 60s we might assume it was an example of classic CIA funding of a putative left group. But these days, who knows? 5 Notice that he, like almost everyone else these days, writes of Nato and not […]
[…] a situation of virtual state bankruptcy. I read Beyond Hypocrisy just after rereading Christopher Lasch’s fine essay about the Congress for Cultural Freedom, written shortly after its CIA funding was exposed in 1967.(1) More than 20 years later, it still has much to commend it, including the following: ‘The modern state, among other things, […]
[…] and jihadis. Billions of dollars and high tech weaponry flow into Islamist hands; tons of heroin return from Afghanistan as the ‘cowboys’, headed by Casey at the CIA, start to spread an enormous net of American money and personnel across Pakistan and the Middle East, much of it going through the BCCI. This disastrous […]
[…] The Americans are repositioning and forgot to tell them. Consultancies The most detailed reference to links between some consultancies and espionage was made by a former founding CIA officer, Miles Copeland, in his book The Game of Nations written over twenty years ago. In this, he wrote: ‘…..When I arrived in Washington (July 1955), […]
