[…] Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week…..’ Defence against which missiles? There is one section of the John Diamond book on the CIA, reviewed below, which deserves picking out. Diamond points out that the missile defence system which the US is deploying, apparently against ‘rogue states’, is not to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Beverley Drive, Suite 202- A, Beverley Hills, CA 90212. The first issue is an interesting beginning, but no more. The second promises to reproduce the text of CIA Document 1035-960, the Agency’s 1967 plan for discrediting critics of the Warren Commission. Old Nazis, New Nazis One of the most impressive pamphlets to come my […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the Carlyle Group has ‘more political connections than the White House switchboard.’ It’s luminaries include former President George Bush (Carlyle’s senior adviser on Asia), Frank Carlucci (former CIA deputy director and Defense Secretary in the Reagan era and now Carlyle emeritus Chairman), James Baker III (Bush’s Secretary of State and senior Carlyle counsellor) and […]
[…] have been radically different but the ‘split’ remained ‘essentially a tactical question’. For Coogan ‘The Order’s’ penchant for Schaukelpolitik (see-saw politics) was directed at playing off Dulles’s CIA against the Soviet Bloc, wringing concessions from both, to ensure the survival of their own goals. Outside the myopic circles of the occult and French New […]
[…] Iraq; Westminster’s recently established All Party Rendition Group. The latter has agreed with human rights groups to use American laws ‘to get Washington to reveal how many CIA flights carrying detainees landed in Britain. They are also planning to table an amendment to the civil aviation bill going through parliament, or the police bill […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] noble friend Lord Callaghan with regard to the Argentine were not passed on until it was far too late….’ (col 1052) ‘It was a member of the CIA, a man called Angleton, who did great harm in this country under the “dirty tricks” campaign.’ (col 1053) Rinka RIP Curious piece in the Daily Telegraph, […]
