[…] 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 […]
[…] For example, his account of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, though cautious by the standards of the Australian left, does refer to the role of the CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(6) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 5 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London on 1 May was preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone. (1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways […]
[…] 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 US London embassy who leaked to Ramsay all the private material between Roosevelt and Churchill 1939/1940. Originally thought to be a Nazi spy, after 1945 the CIA considered him to have been a Soviet agent all along (not a contradiction during the Nazi-Soviet Pact). Aarons and Loftus (op. cit.) also say, p. 212, […]
[…] by Senator Schweiker and the House Investigation; interviews Gerry Hemmings; and the first HSCA director, Richard Sprague, on the politics of the HSCA; discusses the death of CIA big-wig Paisley; accumulates a fair bit of Garrisonia; gives us more about Nagell; discusses Oswald qua Manchurian candidate; and interviews MK Ultra’s Sydney Gottlieb. Russell is […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] of its resources, both spiritual and material, into the battle with the Left. As is well known, the Vatican acted as a conduit for the transfer of CIA funds to the Christian Democrats. As for ‘the pope’s audacious ratline venture’, Phayer argues that it was once again his anti-Communism that lay behind the operation. […]
