[…] of 1960, I was the focal-point officer assigned by the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and […]
[…] Defense Secretary McNamara apparently rejected the plan. The Northwoods documents can be seen at . It is just possible that the rejection of Northwoods led to the CIA plan to stage a phoney assassination attempt on JFK, which has been described by fringe participant, the late Chauncey Holt in his memoir. I reviewed this […]
[PDF file]: […] 2007 they purchased a company that went by the name of SFA Inc. In doing so they also obtained a subsidiary company called The Analysis Corporation. Current CIA Director John Brennan, a long-term CIA veteran, was actually undertaking a stint in the private sector and working 31 Statements from Tim Reilly of Erinys and […]
[PDF file]: […] activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have gone so far as to suggest the entire CIA should be privatised.4 One of the few books on the subject of privatised intelligence, Tim Shorrock’s 2008 Spies for Hire, made it very clear that the […]
[PDF file]: […] in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian and CIA links (the Christian connection was not that convincing considering he was Jewish!) and was treated with such brutality that he was in a vegetative state when […]
[PDF file]: […] by Guerber into running the story? Fourthly, Guerber was a respected journalist with well-placed sources. Andrew Rosthorn informs me that A serious book by Frederic Charpier (La CIA en France – 60 ans d’ingérence dans les affaires françaises, Paris, Seuil, 2008) on sixty years of CIA interference in France . . . cites an […]
[PDF file]: […] suspicion. But MacQueen follows the logic of Senator Leahy to suggest a team of people with access to the highly sophisticated Ames strain being developed by the CIA and US military, and the means to distribute it, had to be involved. He doesn’t name names but says: ‘Certain groups and organisations, based on both […]
[PDF file]: […] joining MI5, and thus condemning him to (relative) poverty in old age. As well as believing that Hollis was a Soviet mole, like James Angleton of the CIA, Wright believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent. They believed this because a Soviet defector Golitsyn suggested that he was. There is a puzzle here, […]
[PDF file]: […] the NUS’s press and publicity officer. IRIS had been formed in 1956 as the industrial wing of Common Cause — my choice as the place where the CIA spent some of its money in the UK. See the essay in Lobster 19. Nash’s former role as an employee of the ICFTU presumably explains the […]
[…] very visibly during Corbyn’s leadership of Discussed at or . 19 Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor disclosed in 1991 that some 500 prominent Britons were paid by the CIA through the corrupt Bank of Commerce and Credit International, including 90 journalists, many of whom were in ‘senior positions’. 20 See ‘The British American Project for […]
