[…] now can not understand is how these subjects just seem to have disappeared again for the best part of a decade. Injectable microchips? Issue 3 of the New York-based magazine Eye, has an interesting article on injectable microchips. They are being used on pets now; how long before they’re used on humans? And under […]
[…] chemical usage and comprised of a steel body with a Mark 131 fin assembly and Central Bursting Tube – according to information made available. A chemical weapons test with a field test kit (designated ‘Mary 256’) was conducted and revealed the munition to contain a mixture of Tabun, Sarin and Cyclo-Sarin. It must be […]
[…] reviews: ‘Unassailably accurate … beautifully written … the definitive book on the Hollis story’ – The Times ‘Lively, well-written a completely engrossing book. West has unearthed completely new material’ – Financial Times ‘West is a thorough and meticulous researcher. His book is one of the most interesting to appear for many years’ – The […]
[…] of Zahedi in his place as Prime Minister. This was a coup designed with the following detailed modus operandi. General Nasiri would deliver Zahedi the order for new post as Prime Minister. Exactly at 10 pm Nasiri would deliver Musadegh’s dismissal to him. Two Guard officers would walk a short distance from Nasiri to […]
[…] unable to plan for the post-war phase until December 2002 – just three months before the start of the invasion.’(2) In The Guardian, in extracts from his new book, Jonathan Steele reported: ‘The government’s top foreign policy advisers were as inept as their US counterparts in failing to see that removing Saddam Hussein in […]
[…] specialised knowledge of this area all I can do is confine myself to the two books: the WIA updated and revised paperback, 260 pages long with no notes and no index; and the Short book, 350 pages with some notes and an index. On the basis of this evidence there really is little competition. […]
A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, […]
[…] Intellectuals and the Congress for Cultural Freedom’ Jessica Gienow-Hecht: ‘(High) Culture and US Cultural Policy towards West Germany’ David Monod: ‘Porgy and Bess as Cold War Propaganda’ Hugo Frey: ‘Hitchcock, the Cold War, and Film Reception in France’ Notes 1 The author’s essay on the Congress for Cultural Freedom appeared in Lobster 36 and 38.
[…] achieve.’ Why did it fail? Apart from the obvious point that few in the Middle East will believe American propaganda, a point which Collins cannot make, Collins notes: ‘The increase in the number of satellite television news services and internet connections makes it ever more difficult to influence opinions globally.’ It is hard to […]
[…] who described the torrent of official information they were receiving from their British military and intelligence connections in the late 1980s – more material than he k new what to do with, he said. This section is missing from the book. It’s not that Taylor actually tries to avoid this area: it just doesn’t […]
