[…] for example, he talks of the CIA in its ‘great, early days ….. manned by the flower of American youth…. something almost entirely new in history, a secret intelligence service that was dedicated to doing good in the world by stealth.’ Ah, the self-confidence (and self-delusion) in ‘doing good in the world by stealth’. […]
[…] in that coup. Kahin’s innocence is understandable when he is describing his travels in the region in the 1950s: the CIA was still, more or less, a secret organisation; but a lot of information has been produced since then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend […]
[…] powerful Japanese task force comprising six of their carriers, two battleships and a number of other units to include tankers and cruisers, has sailed yesterday from a secret base in the northern Japanese islands. Roosevelt We both knew this was coming. There are also reports in my hands about a force of some size […]
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more
[…] much of this programme was known about by the politicians who were nominally in charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the continuing reevaluation of the Cold War; and what with the […]
[…] Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super secret agent; Casolaro wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little […]
[…] Perry said Elwell’s 30-year service to his country in MI5 should properly remain a ‘closed book’. The nearest the congregation heard of the work of the senior secret policeman who smeared many on the left in British public life during the Cold War as being under Soviet influence was the reading from Henry Fielding’s […]
[…] case officers. Two are identified, one remains under a pseudonym; two were the kind of urbane, civilised people we are led to believe work for Her Majesty’s Secret Service; one, the late Alexis Forte, was an obnoxious Russian racist. There is much incidental detail on SIS methods in London in the 1970s and 80s, […]
[…] Colin to ascertain what exactly his allegations were. In my own case, how very odd that no-one in authority will explain why it was agreed at a secret meeting in Whitehall, chaired by Mr Tony Stephens, that Colin and I were telling the truth, and that contingency plans were made to prevent our allegations […]
