[…] based on a fragment of the Barry Seal story. Seal was a big-time cocaine smuggler who got busted and became an informant for the US authorities. The CIA, not the DEA, installed a camera on his plane which malfunctioned and all Seal got were some murky stills of men, one of whom Seal identified […]
[…] more serious – charges were made against Bill Clinton. That Clinton was a communist. In fact there are reasonably good reports that he was recruited by the CIA, while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, to report on American students in the UK who opposed the Vietnam War.2 That Clinton was corrupt. The Whitewater scandal: […]
[PDF file]: […] more serious – charges were made against Bill Clinton. That Clinton was a communist. In fact there are reasonably good reports that he was recruited by the CIA, while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, to report on American students in the UK who opposed the Vietnam War.2 That Clinton was corrupt. The Whitewater scandal: […]
[…] Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by a document which claims to be pages from a CIA analysis of the so-called Supergun affair – that bizarre project to build for Iraq a ‘gun’ with a 750 kilometre range, which ended with the murder […]
[PDF file]: […] EEC The U.S. took the 1975 referendum on British membership of the EEC seriously enough to send Cord Meyer over to London, for the period, as temporary CIA Station Chief. Meyer was one of the CIA’s most important clandestine operators who had been involved in the manipulation of the youth, student and labour fields […]
[PDF file]: […] one place in American society where Mormons have found an unusual degree of acceptance – in agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA, which see Mormons as particularly desirable recruits and have a reputation for hiring a disproportionate number of people who belong to the church. While this comes […]
[…] is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person ever claimed to have been one of ‘tramps’: the late Chauncey Holt. I got interested in this because it […]
[PDF file]: […] – claimed the group had the direct backing of the US State Department and the approval of her close friend Walter Bedell Smith, the director of the CIA. (p. 157)3 Declassified CIA documents show CIA Director Bedell Smith meeting Paine in 19514 and she wrote to the CIA’s H. W. Jackson that year: ‘I […]
[PDF file]: […] the activities of their Soviet bloc intelligence opponents. Then an anti-communist intelligence officer, Michal Goleniewski, working with Polish intelligence, began leaking them information. Code-named ‘Sniper’ by the CIA, he was by far the most important source the US had during the Cold War and exposed a large number of Soviet operations and identified dozens […]
[PDF file]: […] to butter Noriega up. But DEA officials praised Noriega in private as well as in public. Recalled Duane Clarridge, former head of Latin America operations for the CIA, 5 Vivienne Walt, ‘Despite French Sentence, Noriega Could Go Home’, Time, July 7, 2010. Leon Kellner, quoted in Frederick Kempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair […]
