[…] benefited most Johnson disappeared from the story as the Garrison inquiry revealed the rich brew of millionaire businessmen, anti-Castro Cubans, White Russians, the FBI and the CIA, who were linked to Oswald. Despite his personal corruption and the war in Vietnam which he vastly expanded, Johnson also came to be seen as a […]
[…] met Oldfield when serving as an army surgeon in Belfast: ‘We kept in touch. After my book was published, both Sir Maurice and James Angleton of the CIA called me. Sir Maurice told me he had always been baffled by the Hess Affair. When he handed this file to the historians, he said to […]
[…] engineered by the MOD.” Shades of Robert Kennedy! In 1963, immediately after his brother’s assassination, Robert Kennedy is said to have asked the then head of the CIA, John McCone, if the agency had done the dirty deed; and to have “asked the question in such a way that he couldn’t lie to me.” […]
[…] The Americans are repositioning and forgot to tell them. Consultancies The most detailed reference to links between some consultancies and espionage was made by a former founding CIA officer, Miles Copeland, in his book The Game of Nations written over twenty years ago. In this, he wrote: ‘…..When I arrived in Washington (July 1955), […]
[…] has been taken up by the Asso ciation of National Security Alumni. In a briefing they issued on August 19, 1992, after summarising the known DoD and CIA interest in this field, they commented on ‘The increasing number of persons contacting us for assistance in ending what they believe to be electronic harassment by […]
[…] ‘the allies’ have no agents, cannot ‘sell’ their message and Iraq disintegrates. US Attitude to agents America describes its foreign agents as MICE. (Its subliminal subtext implies CIA officers are ‘MEN’.) MICE stands for money, ideology, compromise and ego, airbrushing the valour of unsung heroes and patriots, often civilians, many of them amateurs. It […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
