[…] reports how he had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for ‘the Agency’s information on “Armen Victorian”, “Alan Jones”, Cassava N’Tumba” and others’ .’ But ‘the CIA reply simply referred me to one man, a person identified as Henry Azadehdel.” ‘ Irving puts it this way to leave the reader to infer that […]
[…] would turn out we’re talking about the same thing. I think, for example, in late 1970 when people had become concerned about the high profile of the CIA and its lack of adaptation to current needs, the idea that you would sack a large number of ageing officers and have a smaller Washington headquarters […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. In 1953-4, as the Eisenhower Administration faced growing KMT resistance to its proposed disengagement from Korea and Indochina, so also the CIA disengaged somewhat from its disreputable OPC proteges in Thailand as their opium trafficking became notorious. By 1959, Council on Foreign Relations spokesmen, backed by the influential […]
[…] 1950s and 60s: Armstrong wants us to see what the Agency is known to have been doing while the Oswald story unfolded. But his thesis that the CIA killed JFK and framed Oswald fails for the same reason that previous versions of this have failed: no matter how plausible the idea, no matter how […]
[…] New York he met John Malone, head of the New York FBI, and they apparently had three two hour interviews. Eddowes was shown FBI, Immigration, and, possibly, CIA files on Towers and Novotny. These proved to Eddowes satisfaction that Towers was working for the Soviets; that Novotny had been used to get close to […]
[…] with the mob, a good accounts of the Tyler Kent affair and Joe Kennedy and FDR’s mutual blackmail. For the Kennedy administration itself, it is the mob-Cuba- CIA interface which receives most attention, weaving in and out of graphic depictions of JFK’s colourful personal life. And Hersh presents a compelling picture of an almost […]
[…] Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back $29.95 These books cover some of […]
[…] the first decade of the Cold War. Lucas’ particular emphasis is on the private-public partnership this entailed: Mr Corporate Director and the organs of the US state (CIA, State Department et al) working together. Much of this is new to me (but I am not expert in the field), the detail Lucas has assembled […]
[…] expressed here. As ‘Garrison’ said in that ridiculous closing speech in the movie, ‘It’s up to you’.) RR 1. Stephen Dorril Mark Lane, Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?, Plexus, 1992. Jim Marrs, Crossfire; The Plot that Killed Kennedy, Carroll & Graf, 1992. David E. Scheim, The Mafia Killed […]
[…] only conceded offi cially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of the USAF and the CIA. In 1971 the publication of Klass’ Secret Sentries in Space definitively exposed the US ‘black’ space programme. Burrows’ book not only picks up where Klass left […]
