[PDF file]: […] Whitlam as PM in 1975. For Burke see see or For Pettus see . File TSCH/3/S17401D/63 lists Kennedy’s personal security detail among whom are John Roberts ( CIA, London Embassy) and John Sullivan (US Secret Service). 7 Rather like President Biden today, whose ancestors left for the US at the same time as Kennedy’s. […]
[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, […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in attempts to sink a boatload of buses in the Thames in 1964. It’s an eclectic brew which reflects its editor’s passions and interests, so […]
[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]: 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] his death was ‘ . . . investigated by the local police, the county police, Scotland Yard, Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present because the Americans were interested in this’. Goslett continues: ‘It is unclear how Mangold was able to make this assertion about these […]
[PDF file]: […] half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very good, very well informed and a pleasure to read (and reread). I would […]
[PDF file]: […] Perhaps the WU(C-in-C) provided useful cover for the WUCC in that alphabet soup of government committees? 15 The American observers would have been from the newly formed CIA but were also, very likely, veterans of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. 16 By the time that the WUCC was set up in late 1949, […]
[PDF file]: […] I think it was supposed to be when he was a younger man, of a highly personal and secretive nature with one of his ministers, and the CIA were threatening to fish it out.’ (p. 252) Which rumour is about par for the course in all this. In fact we don’t need to speculate […]
