The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.33 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

View from Bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.19 As the existence of the NSA was not revealed until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the assassination […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. . . .’ These are the Operation Northwoods documents which were included in James Bamford’s book Body of Secrets on the NSA a couple of years later and have become a staple of the parapolitical canon. Curious that such a startling revelation had to wait until 9/11 to […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] recently there was no (public) evidence showing Russian, let alone Russian state involvement.125 The closest we have got to evidence is a piece at The Intercept, ‘Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election’ and a report in the Washington Post recounting the Obama administration’s response to receiving a CIA report […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] they dragged their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] they dragged their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Voice newspaper. Lest we forget, Church was marginalized, lost his Senate seat to a well-funded campaign, and, as we know, the domestic surveillance by the CIA and NSA and whoever else continued unchecked, at least until the Snowden revelations. Church’s committee was regularly lied to by its witnesses and obstructed by the Ford administration; […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] passim), Evans, who for many years has lived in New York, continues to be protective of US security interests. In a Guardian article in 2012, he described NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as ‘narcissistic’. Friends of Israel M edia Society joint host James Harding was soon joined in the upper reaches of the BBC as […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the US Congress, named after their respective chairmen, Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike. These select committees investigated the illegal activities of the CIA, FBI, and NSA between 1975 and 1976. 7 Calvin Coolidge, ‘After all, the chief business of the American people is business…’ Reported in a speech to the American Society […]

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