[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the run-up the attack on Iraq, the aptly named Con Coughlin is at it again. In The Sunday Telegraph of 20 March he ran a piece, ‘ Iran plans secret “nuclear university” to train scientists’, which was attributed to ‘reports received by Western intelligence’. Crazy wavies, right? Meanwhile, out there in the wonderful world […]
Covert Action CAIB trundles on. I haven’t always agreed with CAIB’s line. With others on the U.S. left, it used to seem reluctant to deal with the real nature of the Soviet Union. Having got to he point where America has become Amerika, many American radicals have been unable to acknowledge that the other Superpower […]
[…] he was disciplined, told he was suffering from paranoia, and obliged to leave the police force.’ The background to the case is described in ‘How MI6 helped Iran buy arms’, by Mark Watts, in Sunday Business 9 May 1999. A friend of Friends? ‘Former Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar has admitted he was the minister […]
Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case James DiEugenio Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1992 Scott Newton The JFK industry continues to flourish. One of its most recent as well as more interesting products is DiEugenio’s study of the assassination and the Garrison Commission. The book has its flaws and recycles a good deal […]
