[…] only conceded offi cially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of the USAF and the CIA. In 1971 the publication of Klass’ Secret Sentries in Space definitively exposed the US ‘black’ space programme. Burrows’ book not only picks up where Klass left […]
[…] Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back $29.95 These books cover some of […]
[…] particular instances where such information has been used to block deals between European firms and other countries, with US firms winning the contracts. A letter from ex CIA Director James Woolsey to the Wall Street Journal (March 17 2000) in response to claims of Echelon and the US spying on European industries, admits ‘Yes, […]
[…] Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b, £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton’s allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the post-war era. […]
[…] first appeared in 1983. Wilford’s subtitle tells us what the book is going to do. Francis Stonor Saunders’ account of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA (reviewed in Lobster 38) was titled ‘Who Paid the Piper?’ and implied, rather than actually demonstrated, that the CIA was calling the tune. Over a much […]
[…] Century’. Knightley thinks spies have been a waste of time and money in time of peace. He lists many instances of farce and chaos. He quotes imprisoned CIA officer Aldrich Ames’ opinion that it was all ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the […]
[…] (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological […]
[…] meeting, Rockefeller would be accompanied by Henry Diamond, his attorney, and Scott Jones. After Rockefeller’s approach, Dr John Gibbons asked the White House liaison office with the CIA to provide him with a report on the UFO situation. The CIA officer concerned approached Ron Pandolphi, a CIA officer and member of the Aviary (Pelican), […]
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing […]
[…] from Channon. The expected charges were not made. The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this […]
