Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in […]
The Shadow Warriors Bradley F. Smith (Andre Deutsch, London 1983) The network of close personal connections established in O.S.S. (the fore-runner of the CIA) “helped bridge some of the widest gaps in American society and could be called upon in cases of need long after the war ended. For example, when in 1964 former […]
[…] and Angleton himself has recently confirmed (to author Edward Jay Epstein) the published suggestions that these stories were being leaked by Angleton’s chief enemy within the agency, CIA Director, William Colby, as part of a successful campaign to force Angleton’s resignation. (26) What concerns us, as in the case of the KMT-Hip Sing narcotics […]
[…] The Shah subsequently used widespread repression and torture in a dictatorship that lasted until the 1979 Islamic revolution. The 1953 coup is conventionally regarded primarily as a CIA operation, yet the planning record reveals not only that Britain was the prime mover in the initial project to overthrow the government but also that British […]
[…] of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what was the role of the local CIA station in all this? Such questions remain unanswered partly because the House Select Committee on Assassinations refused to release its 300 page report, ‘Lee Harvey Oswald […]
Mark Lane Plexus, London, £9.99 In 1978 a right-wing American magazine, Spotlight, published an article by former CIA officer Victor Marchetti which claimed that in response to the beginning of public hearings of the House Committee on Assassinations, the CIA was about to admit that one of its former employees, Howard Hunt, one of […]
[…] court documents, Glickman’s mental condition was never quite the same. He never painted again, and he ‘never led a normal social life’. Meanwhile, around 1975, an honest CIA officer discovered financial documents which named Dr Gottlieb as having been involved in the MKULTRA Program, and in 1977 Senator Edward Kennedy held Congressional hearings into […]
[…] I recall the hushed, paranoid atmosphere in a crowded restaurant. Today we know much more about the assassination than we did in 1967, and much more about CIA covert operations. The lowered voices still seem reasonable to me, and the questions they raised seem as vital now as they did then. Other scenes have […]
[…] 1970s the only ‘threat’ was the Soviet Union and the key to the official measure of the ‘Soviet threat’ was the National Intelligence Estimates, prepared by the CIA. In the early 1970s those CIA estimates began to come under attack from the right who claimed that the ‘threat’ was being minimalised in pursuit of […]
[…] itself; the threat also has to be legitimised; and, despite the DIA and Air Force and Naval intelligence, at the apex of the legitimising process remains the CIA. The CIA’s intelligence estimation process is therefore the key area of contest for the military-industrial-complex: no threat, no dollars. This puts the CIA’s analysts under acute […]
