[PDF file]: […] military high command will continue to succeed in portraying Afghanistan as ‘the good war’. The United States overthrew the Taliban by means of a comparative handful of CIA agents and special forces personnel allied with the warlords of the Northern Alliance. With the support of overwhelming US air power, this small army was able […]
[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.11 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]
[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.7 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]
[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.7 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]
[PDF file]: […] years younger, cochaired that joint inquiry, went on to sponsor the Patriot Act and loudly objected to an independent 9/11 inquiry before becoming Bush’s director of the CIA in 2004.7 Complex, difficult and painful If the mainstream media pay any attention to this month’s 15th anniversary of 9/11, I doubt there will be much […]
[PDF file]: […] he himself established to counter Soviet operations against the UK. From 1949 to 1951 he was posted to Washington, working as the SIS liaison officer with the CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and […]
[PDF file]: […] tone of US–Cuba relations since then. Officially the embargo was decreed because the new government of Fidel Castro nationalised assets claimed by US corporations.1 3 A special CIA focus — 12 Horne (2014), p. 267 13 Both the public ones (oil cartels, utilities, distillers) and the covert ones (e.g. organised crime syndicates who operated […]
[PDF file]: […] was to spread across much of the globe. Informal empire in Chile That much is familiar, along with the role played by the Nixon administration and the CIA in destabilising Allende’s government and covertly backing opposition to it in Chilean business and military circles.2 There are, however, two aspects of the Chilean affair which […]
[PDF file]: […] overthrow of the Allende government in Chile; he broke the story of the CIA’s domestic spying and helped expose the CIA’s so-called ‘Family Jewels’, the list of CIA actions which were outside the Agency’s charter. However, the pressure for reform of the CIA was ‘outmuscled by the new Ford administration, managed by Chief of […]
[PDF file]: […] Polish intelligence service in the 1950s who leaked lots of material to the West.4 He thought he was leaking to the FBI, because he didn’t trust the CIA which he believed to have been penetrated by the Soviets. But it was the CIA which was receiving his documents and it was the Agency which […]
