[PDF file]: […] the author of The Assault on Intelligence, was an Air Force General, who went on to become Director of National Intelligence (1999-2005) and then Director of the CIA (2006-2009). Even more than the previous two volumes under review, Hayden brings to the fore that so repugnant is the character of Donald Trump, and so […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] observes, ‘the level of British involvement remains highly classified’ (p. 182). However, he is of the opinion that there was KMS involvement as early as 1982. The CIA were very grateful for British support. The head of its Afghan Task Force not only acknowledged Thatcher as being ‘to the right of Atila the Hun’, […]
[PDF file]: […] is always right, well intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. ‘Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.’ If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state running joint […]
[PDF file]: […] the publication of his 2014 book Bought Journalists46 (currently available only in German) he said that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said he gathered the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war; that corruption […]
[PDF file]: Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals John Rodden Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017 John Rodden is one of the foremost authorities on both George Orwell and the New York intellectuals, most particularly Irving Howe. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Orwell, and his […]
[PDF file]: […] getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military (Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by […]
[PDF file]: […] assassination researchers, Mellen does not take this seriously. In her case, this is presumably due to a career-long support for Jim Garrison whose inquiries focused on the CIA. Nonetheless Professor Mellen has written a very good book, thoroughly documented and full of interesting and new bits and pieces.1 1 If you haven’t read Robert […]
[PDF file]: […] Whitlam as PM in 1975. For Burke see see or For Pettus see . File TSCH/3/S17401D/63 lists Kennedy’s personal security detail among whom are John Roberts ( CIA, London Embassy) and John Sullivan (US Secret Service). 7 Rather like President Biden today, whose ancestors left for the US at the same time as Kennedy’s. […]
