[…] 1975, as the chief of Mexico’s largest heroin ring, Sicilia told police that he was a CIA protege, trained at Fort Jackson as a partisan in the secret war against Cuba. According to Mexican authorities, he was also working in Chile against the socialist government of Salvador Allende until he returned to Miami in […]
[…] ‘pros’, containing all the centrists who had been promoted by the media as the ‘sensible’ people, had tons of money and some covert help from the British secret state in the shape of IRD. The only bits of interest are an entertaining account by Alan Sked of his career as a eurosceptic and this […]
[…] reviewed books which explicitly condemn CIA nation-building involvement in the creation of Qaddafy’s state. Best, Kenn Thomas Steamshovel Press POB 23715 St. Louis, MO 63121 http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma Notes See The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro by Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith, Feral House, POB 3466, Portland OR 97208, $19.95. See Books, below.
[…] to history is something that we may have to wait years to discover. Watching the Watchers The State Department’s National Intelligence Council is drawing up a ‘ secret’ watch-list of 25 countries ‘where instab-ility might precipitate US intervention’. The intentions were announced at a conference organised by the US Institute of Peace, full of […]
[…] 3 Peter Wright, Spycatcher (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987); Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1988); Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991). 4 David Stirling, ‘The Great Britain 75 Organization’, Peace News Special Issue 23 August 1974. 5 Kenneth O. Morgan’s The People’s […]
[…] (and maybe had his phone tapped for the attempt). In an article in Times Higher Educational Supplement (24 April 1987) he wonders: “Does Britain really have a secret conspiratorial history which nobody is to be allowed to get wind of? The scraps of intelligence that have got through the fence suggest that it may […]
[…] a Jihadist which leads to paedophilia or that Jihadists were using child porn pictures to conceal messages hidden in them. The latter idea seems improbable: why conceal secret messages among images which are themselves being hunted by the world’s police? Another thought about the story in this ‘investigation by The Times’ – which looks […]
Barry Davies Bloomsbury, 1994, £14.99 The Lufthansa jet hi-jack and associated events of October 1977, of which this book purports to provide a first-hand account, have always worn a fulsome, fearful beard. This book leaves those events far from clean-shaven. What would help clear away quite a lot of the hair would be access to … Read more
[…] This second has multiple, named sources and is more likely to be true. If it is true, how dumb of the Iraqis to try all this in secret! Had they gone to the United Nations and said this who knows? And did Prime Minister Blair know of these offers? It would rather awkward […]
[…] 1971, Uruguay in February 1973, and Chile in September 1973. (68) Recent French books report that in this same general period former French members of the anti-Gaullist Secret Army (OAS), along with their opposite numbers from the pro-Gaullist barbouzes, worked for the security forces of Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay … and Venezuela and Argentina, […]
