[…] to pursue nuclear programs, no matter what the time or cost, are very different’ from traditional nuclear powers such as Britain and France. North Korea, Algeria, Libya, Iran and, of course, Iraq fit this bill. To quote: ‘They and their terrorist cousins are more likely driven by…. the desire to…. terrorise, blackmail, coerce, or […]
[…] been an intelligence officer in Palestine, and had also served in Malaya, Cyprus, Arabia and Kenya. He stayed at Lisburn till March 1973, when he transferred to Iran as an instructor at the Imperial Armed Forces College. He was awarded the CBE the same year. In 1975 he went to Nottingham, and in 1976 […]
[…] possible because everyone – except David Shayler, apparently – knows that Libya didn’t do Lockerbie. But HMG doesn’t want to embarrass America by pressing it. Now that Iran is again top of the list of America’s designated enemies, it is OK to blame them for Lockerbie; and just hope that we forget Libya. On […]
Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — […]
[…] after Lansdale’s Catholic protégé, Ngo Dinh Diem, was safely ensconced as President of South Vietnam. Conein spent the next few years in the opium rich outlands of Iran as a military advisor to the Shah’s anti-communist special forces. In 1962 he returned to Vietnam as the CIA’s chief of field operations. He also served […]
Charles F. Reske Alpha Publications, Sharon Center, Ohio, USA. For Vietnam War buffs — and no particular political persuasion is necessary to be fascinated by the surreal, epic quality of that conflict — the holiest of holies is probably the Special Operations Group (SOG). One of the most shadowy organizations ever formed by the Pentagon, […]
[…] Defense in appointing and supervising the work of the NSA’s Director and the authorities assigned to the NSA Director; and a recent organisation chart. Declassified Documents on Iran and the US http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/index.html From the National Security Archive. Declass’d documents date from 1947 to 1991 The Ultrasensitive Bay of Pigs http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB29/index.html Newly declassified portions of […]
[…] CIA.’ Blanche recounted to me how she had been vilified for her Declassified Eisenhower in which she disclosed Eisenhower’s role in the CIA’s overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran and Arbenz in Guatemala, and the part played by former Luce publication executive, C. D. Jackson. as Eisenhower’s director of psychological warfare. Sometime later, I was […]
[…] ‘put an office at disposal.’ He also boasts of ‘dealings with the secret services of many other countries including France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Iran, Argentina, Chile and Taiwan.’ As early as p. 20 it is hard to avoid concluding that Crozier is describing how he was recruited by MI6; and […]
[…] the influence on NF policy of Roberto Fiore and the other Italian exiles is clear, what these other links meant, and how far links with Libya and Iran went in this period is not yet clear. While Martin Webster alluded in July 1984 to a projected (but unrealised) trip by Joe Pearce to the […]
