[…] the Americans bought with the 100 million dollars or so they have spent there since the war. On second reading two things emerged from the welter of new names. First, various participants in the plots refer repeatedly not to the United States or its agencies, but to NATO. NATO is dominated by the USA, […]
[…] can have many advantages. The home environment is usually stimulating, cosmopolitan and in formed. There can also be one-off bonus such as acquisition of a British passport for a non-UK citizen. If a child’s parents are spies, the child is usually an active participant in espionage at every stage of his or her development. […]
[…] House of Commons. They were Anglophiles and they were very upset at the way their agency was going to interfere in the referendum campaign. They said a new head of station was going to be appointed who was not a normal CIA man, he was well known in the federalist movement and they were […]
[…] of shortage of space. Since writing it, Teacher has been reading some of the work of Roger Faligot, the French writer on intelligence matters. On Kelly, Teacher notes that in Faligot’s recent La Piscine, Faligot states: Otto Schlutter had supplied weapons to the FLN during the Algerian war which drew the attention of the […]
[…] planning to get out of Vietnam. Support for this came from JFK’s Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, Roger Hilsman. In a letter to the New York Times, January 20, 1992, Hilsman concluded: ‘The historical record, in sum, is clear: President Kennedy was determined not to let Vietnam become an American war […]
[…] one that CCS planned ‘left wing’ riots and the assassination of Nixon for the Republican Convention of 1972, apparently in the hope of installing Vice President Ag new as some kind of dictator. Although this story is quite widely accepted among the US conspiracy buffs, the exact status it has remains unclear to me. […]
[…] ; and at and are accounts of two of the long-range psy-ops projects against the Soviet bloc, one by the CIA, the other by the USIA. Jonestown:the latest editions of the Jonestown report are now at . Fielding M. McGehee III, whose project this is, comments: ‘The sponsoring site for the report at includes […]
[…] by the government in late 1949, giving such as evidence as it had for its communist conspiracy thesis, he does not discuss its contents. Wonder why not? Notes 1 This subject was touched on in my ‘Moscow gold: the “Communist threat” in post-war Britain’ in Lobster 25, and again in the special issue, advertised […]
[…] American state has gone ‘beyond bullets’, that it doesn’t need violence to quell/discourage dissent. But I suspect the bullets are still there, in reserve, just in case. Notes As did David Osler (who wrote in Lobster 33) who called it ‘one of the most enjoyable current affairs books I read in 2007’ on his […]
[…] Thomas says three of the shots came from above and thus could not have been fired by members of the Parachute Regiment, who were on the ground. Notes This speculation was bolstered by the appearance of a story in the Mail on Sunday, 24 October 1999 (‘Tainted evidence threatens Lockerbie trial’ by James Grylls […]
