Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair London:Verso, 1999, £10 Much has been written about the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the global drugs trade but this is the first book that actually brings it all together in one place. The authors haven’t exposed much that is new, instead they have taken all … Read more
In mid-November 1993, after six years of research, 42-year old Eileen Welsome produced a gripping series of articles examining the life and death of five people — a railroad porter, a house painter, a carpenter, a politician and a homemaker — used as human guinea pigs by the US Department of Energy. Appearing in the … Read more
‘The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’ – Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off Long … Read more
Desmond Bristow with Bill Bristow Little, Brown and co., London, 1993 Shoot the marketing department. There is almost nothing about ‘moles’ in this book. The reality is a mildly interesting account of Bristow’s MI6 career from 1940-1956, most of it spent in Spain. A few names are named — but 40 years on, who gives … Read more
[…] meant, of course, is that the public was once again treated to the orthodox version of the Watergate affair, while coverage of the alternative theory was effectively suppressed (except to the extent that Liddy himself was able to articulate it). Readers of the newspaper can only have been perplexed by the jury’s 7-2 ruling […]
[…] way. Griffiths argues, with considerable respectable-looking documentation, that the benefits of fluoride have been wildly exaggerated and the side-effects of dumping it in drinking water have been suppressed — in the interests of a chemical industry lobby. Now there’s a surprise. Covert Action Quarterly, 1500 Massachusetts Avenue, NW #272, Washington, DC 20005, USA. A […]
[…] years ago, this seemed unlikely to me. So I e-mailed Scott who replied thus: ‘Mike got my case all wrong…..ITT (close to CIA) owned Bobbs-Merrill, and simply suppressed the book. A friend of mine went to the big annual book fair and noticed my book missing from the Bobbs-Merrill display. He raised the issue […]
[PDF file]: […] the 1950s.20 More importantly, Kissinger is the central figure in his claims about Bilderberg and the 1973 oil shock. It is Kissinger, supposedly following Bilderberg instructions, who suppressed crucial intelligence to bring about the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo, and who subsequently encouraged the Shah of Iran to raise oil prices […]
[PDF file]: […] 1968, nationalist governments have been overthrown in Indonesia, Congo, Ghana, and Brazil. Cuba is the great surprise amidst the literally hundreds of nationalist, anti-colonial movements and governments suppressed by the US. William Blum has catalogued the enormous number of overt and covert interventions by the US in his book Killing Hope. The amazing thing […]
