[…] author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. It was a major piece of whistle-blowing as well as a remarkable event in American political life; and […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
[…] updated IRD, and ‘public diplomacy’ is a 1980s euphemism for disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon correspondent of the U.S. television network ABC called ‘reliable CIA sources’.’ Few disinformation stories can be traced back to their sources, but in this instance Morgan […]
[…] grew, and not just from the standpoint of the Navy. I was dispatched to the White House to brief President Eisenhower and to the bowels of the Pentagon to meet with Allen Dulles as the Navy representative.’ The Lugar report (see note 2) p.16. Lowenkron B.F. (2006) ‘The Essential Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in […]
[…] at War Chapter 3.2 Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Chapter 4.1 Nukes on Campus Chapter 4.2 Aldermaston Research Projects Chapter 5.1 Researching for Uncle Sam Chapter 5.2 Pentagon research projects Chapter 6.1 Ailing Alliance – NATO research Chapter 7.1 Electronic spies Chapter 7.2 GCHQ research projects Chapter 8.1 What to do about it Chapter […]
[…] may well have inspired a few belly laughs in Crypto City. The CIA is passé, history, cold war. In the wake of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon terrorist atrocities, the slight lifting of the curtain on state intelligence-inspired economic espionage will be quietly ignored. While economic espionage was asserted by a former NSA […]
[…] that he had met Mr Oeschler. General Stafford did not remember Mr Oeschler, did not remember meeting him, and did not remember a ‘security device’ in the Pentagon Mr Oeschler describes. Finally I asked him if he had seen any evidence of flying saucers. ‘Hell no’, he said. NASA and anti-gravity In Chapter 10 […]
[…] National Endowment for Democracy, which, as Blum notes elsewhere in the book, does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The day after the coup, the Pentagon announced that it was ‘kinda delighted’ that ‘all of a sudden’ their ships could go to Fiji. Blum doesn’t note a short article that appeared in […]
Greg Palast New York: Dutton, 2006, $25.95, h/b Another whizzer from Palast. It’s content is similar in a general sense to his previous one, The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy: the corruption and power of the global corporations; the venality of politicians (and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats in particular); ‘the … Read more
[…] socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used […]
