Larry Tye New York: Owl Books, 2002, pb $16.00 ISBN 0 8050 6789 2 If Edward Bernays hadn’t existed, Edward Bernays would have invented him. And in fact this is more or less what happened. This is the long-awaited paperback edition of the first full-length biography of Bernays, who, like President Harry Truman, […]
[…] and they have tended to remain in Eire. But British Intelligence now has wind of a big recruiting campaign in the U.S. backed by pro-I.R.A. organisations in New York. There is no shortage of ex-Vietnam veterans – many of them Catholics of Irish origin – prepared to hire out their services. And the U.S. […]
[…] crashed with alarming regularity while doing low-level bombing missions for which they were not designed. This current British focus on little groups of ‘dangerous men’ is nothing new. Throughout the 1950s and 60s British popular culture presented World War Two as won by superior British know-how (bouncing bombs), and little bands of brave warriors […]
[…] status and wealth. Mostly using interviews with the participants of the time, Cahn’s book describes, in clear, straightforward prose, how groups fronting those two lobbies created a new Soviet ‘threat’ in 1976/7. Spending on the military-industrial-intelligence complex is affected by the definition of the ‘threat’ facing America: low threat, lower spending; high threat, higher […]
[…] Of course it wasn’t anything resembling a ‘war’ at all. Even a very Kennedy-phile account such as that in chapter two of Victor Navasky’s Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, New York, 1971) makes it clear that ‘campaign’ or ‘drive’ is certainly a better term than ‘war’ which suggests a scale and commitment which is inappropriate. (As […]
[…] experiments in the US, and much other stuff of interest. Despite its frequent typos, Unclassified is a very valuable resource. . Honey, I shrunk the spooks The New York Times of 1 March reports that a presidential commission has recommended shrinking the USA intelligence agencies while leaving their structure fundamentally unchanged. The report recommends […]
[…] than $50,000. Unfortunately for Holihan the June 1983 election intervened and Thatcher cut short her US visit following the Williamsburg summit meeting. ANON. * * * The New York Times obtained transcripts of conversations between Charles Z. Wick, Director of the US Information Agency, and James A. Baker, White House Chief of Staff. (International […]
[…] sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially in the two areas of SAS operational deployment and the ethics of soldiering. […]
[…] cocaine in Panama between December 11, 1975 and April 1 1976……. Colby told me that profits from the pre-positioned cocaine would be laundered by Al Carone, the New York Mafia and Robert Vesco…..’ Notice Al Carone in the last sentence. He figures elsewhere in the Dowbenko piece, as a ‘CIA operative’ who makes the […]
Thomas J. and Kathleen Schaeper Herghahn Books, Oxford and New York, 1998 No price stated Chatty, readable account of American Rhodes Scholars. Although full of interesting anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton […]
