[…] titled ‘FOIA requests by “Dr Victorian” ‘. In it Alexander complains about Victorian’s success in getting information and notes on p. 2, ‘I have learned that the CIA has asked both British Intelligence and the police to assist in resolving problems’ with Victorian. This may or may not have anything to do with 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘oil shortage’ ….the whole scam was intended to make sure Carter was a one-term president. As soon as Reagan came in office, all of a sudden the CIA miraculously reversed their dramatic doomsday predictions that oil was running out and the world was awash in oil…’ Other Means, Summer 1997 PO Box 191710, San […]
[…] as it is ideologically committed to capitalism and against any form of so cialism and secularism. Their system of secrecy reminds one of the ways that the CIA operates: routinely denying that people are members, unless it can be proved otherwise. When coupled with their doctrine of ‘individual freedom’, this means that when O.D. […]
[…] is basically a study of the ‘Red Orchestra’, an area already covered in detail. The author shows that this was, indeed, a very big spy ring. (The CIA were still investigating its activities well into the 1970s, believing that portions of it had survived various Gestapo crack-downs and had gone on to become embedded […]
[…] material from them on the attempts being made by the United States to overturn New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy. I had read enough about the role of the CIA to recognise some of the names of the people and organisations who were turning up in NZ and the general strategy being employed. It is difficult […]
[…] NUS politics he became personal assistant to Ronald Gould, the National Union of Teachers general secretary who also presided over another Cold War organisation set up with CIA money, the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). A fellow student politics contemporary, Peter Robinson, also joined the staff of the NUT but, […]
[…] 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 […]
