[…] Pigs veterans, the mob and dissidents in the CIA, we can also factor in the Greek Colonels (business partners of Onassis and bankrolling Nixon),() the Shah of Iran (bitterly opposed to the Kennedys and also bankrolling Nixon), ( ) LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover and the mob-linked billionaire with a grudge, Aristotle Onassis. We have […]
[…] as one of ‘destabilisation’. This was a new term but the tactics were mostly tried and trusted variations on a theme already played successfully for example in Iran, Guatemala, Ecuador, and British Guiana over the preceding generation. (6) For years it has been said that the CIA was implicated in the fall of Allende […]
9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror Ian Henshall and Rowland Morgan London: Robinson, 2005; £8.99, p/b A declaration of a kind of interest: one of the authors of this book, Ian Henshall, is the Chair of INK, the Independent News Collective, to which Lobster belongs and whose leaflets Lobster has […]
[…] for years with his old pal Richard Perle from their base at the American Enterprise Institute for a war on Iraq and now for similar intervention in Iran and Syria. Ledeen was a regular contributor on terrorism and the defence of Ariel Sharon’s Israel in The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator when Conrad Black […]
[…] — Middle Easterners discern them in the merest accidents….. neglecting conspiracy theories can lead to a profound misreading of that region….’. He declares that ‘The shah of Iran and Anwar as-Sadat lost their countrymen’s respect because both were (wrongly) seen as agents of Washington.’ Wrongly, huh? Depends on how he is using ‘agent’. Do […]
[…] overthrown by British and CIA terrorism in order to secure the flow of cheap sugar and bauxite. That was a busy year. The elected nationalist government in Iran met the same fate; claiming ownership of the nation’s oil resources was beyond the pale.(24) British governments supported repression and killing in Uganda, Chile and South […]
[…] PRIESTLY, SIMON MI6 (C) 1985 HEAD OF MOSCOW OFFICE, QUEST AUTOMATION: EXPELLED FOR ALLEGED ESPIONAGE PUPLETT, P.A.R. MI5 (C) 1956 PORTSMOUTH INVOLVED WITH CRABB CASE 60-70’s PORTUGAL, IRAN AND NORTHERN IRELAND -86 HEAD OFFICE TARMAC LTD. QUINN, DESMOND. GCHQ 1978 RADIO OFFICER GCHQ BORA RANSOME, JOHN 1951 BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ATTACHED TO THE ‘TECHNICAL […]
[…] it was wrong, the UK became complicit in a strategy that could only be used on terms that must now result in the mass murder of civilians. Iran has now become the case study. The Iranian revolutionary right has crushed the liberal opposition precisely because it is associated with the West, confrontation is growing […]
See note(1) Like some Russian high official come to treat with Chechen rebels, CIA Director John Deutch arrived in force — by heavily-armed motorcade, and with helicopter cover. SWAT teams swarmed over the building that was Deutch’s destination. But on November 15, 1996, Deutch’s destination was in fact only the auditorium of Locke High School […]
[…] London, 1993). Crozier speaks highly of General Douglas Brown, manager of the trust in the late 1970s, who was able to facilitate contacts with the Shah of Iran at the time when Iran was on the brink of revolution (p. 157). General Brown also gave a crucial £50,000 donation to Crozier’s Institute for the […]
