[…] SIS to steal files 10 and 11 from Box 3 at the Hoover Institution. The Hoover Institution wrote to inform me of the disappearance. They instructed the FBI.’ De Courcy claims that the FBI investigating officers refused him a list of their suspects because ‘they have been so instructed by the Cabinet Office’. The […]
In an article in the Journal of Popular Culture, (1) one of the editors of the Jonestown Report considers the role that conspiracy theories have played in the unfolding narrative of ‘Jonestown’. It is a worthwhile endeavour to which few scholars could bring better credentials. Rebecca Moore is a professor of religious studies at the […]
[…] duty to provide information on request. It is important to respond; site gives details how to; responses by 31 Jan 2003. EPIC Carnivore FOIA litigation http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/ The FBI claim that the Carnivore internet monitoring system, which is installed at ISPs and can monitor all data traffic, can be programmed to only deliver to investigators […]
In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. For […]
[…] one of the dirty secrets which had to be kept out of the 9-11 inquiry. This material is one of the reasons that the testimony of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who listened to FBI wiretaps of the Khan network using Turkish intermediaries and American lobbyists and politicians in the network’s continuing pursuit of […]
[…] committee was the first – and last – of its kind. Given a sweeping mandate to investigate interstate organised crime, something which Hoover, then head of the FBI, denied existed, it looked for a time in the early fifties as if it might not only break the power of the Mob but also propel […]
Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War Larry O’Hara Phoenix Press, London, 1994, £6 (p and p included) from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX; cheques payable to Larry O’Hara. Since 1945 MI5 has had three main domestic targets: Soviet bloc espionage, the British Left and the IRA. With the Soviet target gone, […]
[…] to me. Flatland Two interesting pieces on Jim Martin’s Flatland Website, http://www.flatland books.com/ His ‘America’s Al-Qaeda: The SLA-Venceremos Connection’ and another take on the Judy Bari/Earth First/ FBI bombing story. Her ex-husband did it, says Martin, not the FBI. Red Star Research By far the best source on New Labour, personnel, sources of funding […]
[…] “core group” during the 1980 hostage crisis. Herbert Cohen of the Hoover Institution, a member of the Carter Administration’s Hostage Task Force and a consultant to the FBI and Justice Departments on the hostage negotiations in 1980, met with Reagan Campaign Manager William Casey in the New York City Plaza Hotel in September 1980 […]
First off, a slight digression. There’s been much talk recently about just how many books have been published on the assassination. ‘Over 2000’ is the figure that has been thrown around and this may be traced to the very opening sentence of Gerald Posner’s egregious Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK […]
