[…] Deutch’s promise that the CIA would investigate itself: hoots and howls. After all, the last internal CIA report on contras and drugs, completed in 1988, is still secret. ‘I don’t know why Dixon is saluting Deutch’s courage for coming here today,’ someone from the audience complained at the floor microphone, ‘when everybody knows this […]
[…] or still ‘radicals’ agree on, but one of them would be that short of some exceptional life-threatening situation it is not possible to co-operate with the British secret state. My enemy’s enemy Finally, why did Searchlight attack Larry for a tiny little fragment in Tribune? Why not for the much bigger piece in Lobster […]
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, […]
Secret Nazi Technology which could have changed the course of WWII Gary Hyland and Anton Gill, Headline Books, 1998, £18.99 Thirty years ago schoolboys built model aeroplanes. The most common and popular were, for the Airfix generation, the main combat types of the last great war – Spitfires, Me109s, Mustangs, Zeros, Lancasters, Flying […]
[…] PKI. (78) Only from recently released documents do we learn that new military aid was en route as late as July 1965, in the form of a secret contract to deliver 200 Aero-Commanders to the Indonesian Army: these were light aircraft suitable for use in ‘civic action’ or counter-insurgency operations, presumably by the Army […]
[…] the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of Allende were released, including CIA documents recording US covert operations between 1968 and […]
[…] formed the European Movement (whose first congress at the Hague in 1948 is the origin of the Council of Europe), which received substantial contributions from US government secret funds as well as private sources via the American Committee for a United Europe (ACUE). The names mentioned above are significant in the present context: Leffingwell […]
[…] in almost any other sector of the trade union movement’. The report recommended that ‘Departments should have the right in respect of establishments or staff employed on secret work to deny access to or to refuse to negotiate with trade union officials whom they had reason to believe were Communists.’ This definition was extended […]
[…] slipped the drug; later, mescaline was combined with hypnosis. (8) After the war, a number of Nazi chemical warfare specialists went on to work for the American secret services. These scientists included Karl Tauboeck, whose attempts to find a workable ‘truth serum’ provided the CIA with a wealth of data — data derived, ultimately, […]
[…] Neither book takes on board the fact that the emigres used were largely ex-nazi collaborators, or how MI6 came to be involved with such people. The big secret that Philby and the other defectors took with them was the involvement of MI6, through Ellis and Menzies, with these proto-fascists before, during and after the […]
