[…] may well have inspired a few belly laughs in Crypto City. The CIA is passé, history, cold war. In the wake of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon terrorist atrocities, the slight lifting of the curtain on state intelligence-inspired economic espionage will be quietly ignored. While economic espionage was asserted by a former NSA […]
[…] at War Chapter 3.2 Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Chapter 4.1 Nukes on Campus Chapter 4.2 Aldermaston Research Projects Chapter 5.1 Researching for Uncle Sam Chapter 5.2 Pentagon research projects Chapter 6.1 Ailing Alliance – NATO research Chapter 7.1 Electronic spies Chapter 7.2 GCHQ research projects Chapter 8.1 What to do about it Chapter […]
Greg Palast New York: Dutton, 2006, $25.95, h/b Another whizzer from Palast. It’s content is similar in a general sense to his previous one, The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy: the corruption and power of the global corporations; the venality of politicians (and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats in particular); ‘the … Read more
[…] that he had met Mr Oeschler. General Stafford did not remember Mr Oeschler, did not remember meeting him, and did not remember a ‘security device’ in the Pentagon Mr Oeschler describes. Finally I asked him if he had seen any evidence of flying saucers. ‘Hell no’, he said. NASA and anti-gravity In Chapter 10 […]
[…] National Endowment for Democracy, which, as Blum notes elsewhere in the book, does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The day after the coup, the Pentagon announced that it was ‘kinda delighted’ that ‘all of a sudden’ their ships could go to Fiji. Blum doesn’t note a short article that appeared in […]
[…] () Running parallel to the hearts and minds campaign to win over Islamic opinion, was America’s Long War announcement, an attack advert – otherwise known as a Pentagon strategy review – warning citizens/external audiences about the Long War ahead.() Doom-laden, it went head-to-head with China’s emerging Harmony PR, a sort of Confucius-moderne philosophy.() Beating […]
[…] socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used […]
[…] preposterous. The rationale for Nato’s deployment was the opposite.’ At best, Kamm hasn’t done his homework. There was a good deal of nuclear war-fighting talk among the Pentagon and its satellite think-tanks and university departments. It was all the rage among the strategic theorists in the late 1970s. The issue was the credibility of […]
[…] and Command School in Bandung (SESKOAD) into a training-ground for the takeover of political power. SESKOAD in this period became a focal point of attention from the Pentagon, the CIA RAND, and (indirectly) the Ford Foundation. (46) Under the guidance of Nasution and Suwarto, SESKOAD developed a new strategic doctrine, that of Territorial Warfare […]
[…] 1962 missile crisis and closedown of ‘Operation Mongoose’. But evidence of deep disagreement with Kennedy’s emerging detente with both Cuba and the USSR in the CIA and Pentagon can be found in the bizarre Life Magazine effort of June 7 1963 to prove that the missiles were still there.(4) Hersh’s reading of JFK’s November […]
