[PDF file]: […] Aldrich and Cormac reveal, GCHQ provided the Americans with ‘volumes of signals intelligence’ to help their war effort and the Americans were allowed to operate their ‘largest CIA station in the region’ out of Hong Kong. MI6 agents in the British Embassy in Hanoi provided intelligence reports on the effect of US bombing that […]
[PDF file]: […] General Sir John Kerr, who sacked him in November 1975. In true Seventies fashion, some furious Whitlam supporters claimed that Kerr had acted on orders from the CIA.’ Wheen does not offer an opinion on whether the ‘furious Whitlam supporters ‘ were right or wrong (I don’t think he cares); he’s interested in the […]
[PDF file]: […] Hunt. And that’s true up to a point. Loy Factor was brain damaged during military service; Estes was a convicted fraudster; Hunt’s claims were those a dying CIA officer whose role within the CIA had included disinformation; and McClellan’s ‘evidence’ was merely the statement of a third party buried in a book mixing fact […]
[PDF file]: […] Times 16 August 2009. 5 In ‘The Crime of Lockerbie’ in The Spokesman no. 105, 2009. Page 90 Winter 2009/10 Page 90 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Former CIA officer Robert Baer said: ‘Your justice secretary had two choices – sneak into Megrahi’s cell and smother him with his pillow or release him…. The end […]
[…] was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has […]
[PDF file]: […] the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. Michael Springmann, a State Department employee in Saudi Arabia who was pressured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into giving visas to some of the alleged hijackers. Nafeez Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events […]
[PDF file]: […] tells us that in Italy in 1948 the Communists lost the election. About that election, ‘There were (and are) cries of “foul”, because of covert activity by CIA men such as Michael Ledeen or Edward Luttwak, who knew the country well.’ If he isn’t claiming that Ledeen (born 1942) and Luttwak (born 1941) were […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose successor William H Webster finally returned it four years later. However, if this is the case, the question of why the CIA might have been interested in secret documents on the death of a member of the Royal Family remains unanswered. Afterword Briefly mentioned in contemporary news coverage […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Well, how did we get here? Robin Ramsay Introduction T hat I do this was suggested by Dan Hind and he made a number of useful comments on this text, some additions to it and suggested the title. Essentially I took parts of my 1999 Prawn Cocktail Party, pruned them and topped […]
[PDF file]: […] memoirs. Although unsentimental, The Hotel Tacloban is saturated with unstated but real empathy for the person whose story is recorded. This empathy was so powerful that former CIA director William Colby, who had read the book, hoped Valentine Jr. would bring that empathy to his book about the soldiers in Phoenix, and granted him […]
