[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Lord Stevenson Media coverage of four senior bankers arraigned before the Treasury Select Committee in February centred on whether the representatives of the Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS would utter the word ‘sorry’ about behaviour that has landed the British taxpayer in the soup. In what appeared to be a well-rehearsed effort, all duly […]
[…] the title refers to the years Philby spent in Beirut, parked there by SIS. Thus we get short chapters on the overthrow of the Mossadeq government in Iran (which occurred before Philby arrived in Beirut); the curious ‘invasion’ of Lebanon by the US in 1958, in which, according to Riley, Philby played no role; […]
One of the aims of this column is to open up new lines of enquiry for parapolitical specialists. It might seem very odd to start with the name of Reinhard Gehlen, long-since dead founder of the BND, the German Security Service. Reinhard Gehlen, to over-simplify a very complex tale, bought his way into the Western […]
