[…] which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an interview with a man called Lars Hansson which covers the actor Steven Seagal’s odd connections, an alleged CIA assassin who claims to have killed 117 people for the US government between 1943 and 1990, and Gordon Novel and John Lear; a piece called ‘Thieves […]
[…] is that it was a disastrous fuck-up in which the yahoos and Cowboys in the Pentagon overrode the advice (and planning) of those sensible Yankees in the CIA and the State Department.(5) For the junior British half of the story it was a disastrous fuck-up in which either the Foreign Office failed to warn […]
[…] thousands of pro-Nazi soldiers and war criminals from Eastern Europe, groups which eventually were formed into the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, funded by MI6 and then the CIA. Why did the British state import these people? First, they were regarded as potential sources of information and agents in the anti-Soviet struggle which had been […]
[…] The previous British referendum on ‘Europe’ was scarcely a balanced affair. Most of the press promoted the ‘Yes’ campaign, as did much of the political establishment, the CIA, the BBC and the Information Research Department. This time the forces are less uneven and McGiffen’s material could help lay the basis for a more serious […]
[…] deeply improbable. In the attempt to nail the IPS, Crozier runs a load of bullshit at the reader. He recycles the old canard that Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, was murdered as a result of being identified in CounterSpy. He even describes John Kennedy as being killed by a member of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Vatican monasteries of Bishop Hudal in 1947, became a leading representative of the Skorzeny network in Chile. (108) In late 1974, junta Ambassador Julio Duran, a long-time CIA contact and organiser of Patria Y Libertad, appeared at a Miami Cuban rally organised by Sepulveda’s contact Ramiro de la Fe Perez. (109) One year later […]
[…] much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced yet. Kennedy Lindsay John Kennedy Lindsay died suddenly on 8 May 1997 at his home near Templepatrick outside Belfast. He was […]
[…] SIS to play a part in the anti-Soviet operations of the early years of Cold War 1 — the small-scale British version of the conversion of the CIA from an intelligence agency into a covert operations adjunct to US foreign policy. (Aldrich is one of the handfuls of British academics who are trying to […]
[…] 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 […]
