[PDF file]: The Lone Star Speaks Untold Texas Stories about the JFK Assassination Sara Peterson and K. W. Zachry Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2020, $28.95 www.bancroftpress.com Robin Ramsay This is a very interesting and big book (over 500 pages if you include the end notes).1 The authors’ choice of format has determined the book’s shape. Each chapter focuses […]
[PDF file]: […] existed, the source for the information in it would have been someone fairly important in Ukraine – probably Valentyn Nalyvaichenko himself, double-sourcing his own story via the CIA and thus covertly providing the US congressmen with what appeared to be domestic corroboration. A Russian presidential spokesman clearly had suspicions along similar lines about the […]
[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]: […] or not it was a Communist front! As for Spender’s involvement, he provides a convincing argument in favour of Spender knowing that Encounter was funded by the CIA. He had, after all, worked for the Political Warfare Executive during the war and was certainly not the naïve literateur, taken advantage of by Cold Warriors, […]
[PDF file]: […] LSD would have when introduced into the social and political counter-culture; specifically if it would disable activities that might otherwise threaten the state. We know that the CIA and the UK intelligence services did research of this type through the 50s and 60s (often on ‘unwitting subjects’)8 so Hollingshead’s antics are not out of […]
[…] existed, the source for the information in it would have been someone fairly important in Ukraine – probably Valentyn Nalyvaichenko himself, double-sourcing his own story via the CIA and thus covertly providing the US congressmen with what appeared to be domestic corroboration. A Russian presidential spokesman clearly had suspicions along similar lines about the […]
[PDF file]: […] In this book deHaven-Smith does two main things. He traces the current use of the expression ‘conspiracy theorist’ back to the notorious 1967 memo issued by the CIA to all its agents and assets, with advice on how to respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that […]
[PDF file]: […] only read fragments. O’Brien recounts tales of her sexual abuse at the hands of various American politi cians. The subtitle is The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave. In O’Brien’s view of the universe, the rich and powerful men of America need mind-controlled sex slaves to act out their fantasies. Alas, […]
[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the title, […]
[PDF file]: […] as communism, it appeared that Eden’s diplomacy represented a great lost opportunity. The unravelling of the French position in Vietnam and the role of the US (and CIA) in this formed the basis of the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American (1955). and (2) the announcement in July 1955 of the lowest ever unemployment […]
