McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted […]
[…] not seem to have occurred to Kinnock and co. that every phone within a mile of Wright and his legal team was tapped of course, and the NSA had their resources on the case. The information about the call from Kinnock’s office was duly passed – presumably from the NSA via GCHQ – to […]
[…] 5th April 1984 Potted history of GCHQ and a sketch of some of its functions and bases, plus brief account of Platform, a computer network run by NSA, of which GCHQ is to become a part. Connor suggests this latter event is the main reason behind US pressure for polygraphs and union ban, as […]
[…] examples: on page 7 he refers to a paper which, in turn, refers to the existence of a DIA psychic centre in the National Security Agency ( NSA); but he fails give details of the paper. On page 18 Rifat makes extensive references to hypnosis, drugs, meditation, ELF and a host of other commonly […]
[…] implications if they are further modified to be used offensively. By taking advantage of the Electro-magentic Field (EMF) technology, various intelligence agencies, have developed enormous capabilities. The NSA has shown great interest in developing technology to remotely monitor the evoked potential from EEG. Should such techology be developed, and the EEG of the targeted […]
[…] seriously enough. Notes This is not mentioned by the authors. Enemy Within (London: John Murray, 1995) In a legal sense she is probably telling the truth: GCHQ/ NSA would do the intercepts and Special Branch ran the agents, as has been admitted since. I discuss this in my contribution to Granville Williams (ed.) Shafted: […]
[…] theft by sections of the Federal government; its alleged abilities to access all other systems to which it is connected; and its alleged distribution world-wide so the NSA (?) could access, via the soft-ware, other countries’ information systems; Earl Brian, who may have sold it, who may have been part of the Bush October […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
[…] created by Congress in December 1994, and heard testimony from present and former intelligence officials: it recommended the elimination of as many as 5,000 jobs within CIA, NSA and DIA. Next day, the House Intelligence Committee (dominated by Republicans) issued its own report, which recommends (as predicted by Lester Coleman in Unclassified) the subordination […]
[…] very large It’s been years since anything from Rolling Stone has seemed worthy of note but in 2005 it published a long piece by chronicler of the NSA, James Bamford, on the American private sector psy-ops/perception managers, the Rendon Group: ‘The man who sold the war: meet John Rendon’.(5) Bamford’s essay shows the enormous […]
