[…] the Search and Recovery teams formed part of a Special Unit with the designation ‘SCRSWA’. This unit has not been identified, despite a telephone call to the Pentagon library. According to sources, there was a British involvement. This has yet to be identified and confirmed, but it is thought possible the bacteriological weapon may […]
[…] example, or Colombia today; or Central America in the 1980s.) This happens because the American system as constructed since 1945 needs enemies. It needs ‘threats’. If the Pentagon and the corporations and politicians feeding off it are to continue to receive 50% of federal tax dollars there needs to be a plausible threat or […]
[…] the chief Middle East arms sales adviser to Secretary of Defense Weinberger, from which post he was positioned to authorise the Israeli arms shipments out of the Pentagon. Secord had also headed planning for the sabotaged (see below) Desert One/Eagleclaw hostage rescue attempt in April 1980 (Secord’s testimony in the Irangate hearings; San Jose […]
[…] and create a platform from which to launch many of its covert operations. One quest-ion the authors do not address is the parallel between the way the Pentagon in the US sought to control intelligence, and thus create a policy-making platform for itself, and the way NATO has become an autonomous policy-making body, rather […]
[…] and, to no-one’s surprise, came up with a bigger ‘threat’, and thus the support for the increased expenditure on U.S. armaments sought by the neo-conservatives and the Pentagon and its satellite arms corporations.(8) If the U.S. arms industry needed a bomber gap, a missile gap, or a psi gap, if the government needed a […]
[…] the deep structures of the American state. What really comes across in Briody’s account is anger at the tacit collusion between Halliburton, the Republican administration and the Pentagon in an absolutely gargantuan misuse of public money. And the sums involved are truly staggering. As an extended piece of investigative journalism The Halliburton Agenda did […]
[…] March, 1983. Letter of 2 October 1997 from William A. Longwell, Acting Counsel, Marine Systems Command to author, concerning a request filed in 1994. See also ‘ Pentagon to set priorities in non-lethal Technologies’ in Inside the Air Force: an exclusive weekly report on Air Force programs, procurement and policy-making, Vol. 5 no. 15, […]
[…] action a year before invasion took place’, The Guardian, 2 May 2005. For an account of what usually happens see David L. Robb, Operation Hollywood: how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004) Gavin Smith, ‘Hearts & minds’, Film Comment 40 (5), September-October 2004, pp. 28-33. ‘Arab American publisher […]
[…] is pretty well what happened. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has come across this wargame before. It doesn’t appear to be in the Pentagon Papers, for example. (Or did I miss it?) RR The Lemming Folk James Gibb Stuart (William McClellan, Glasgow, 1980) This isn’t a new book but is […]
[…] the CIA station was doubling in size. Honduras was a major transit station for cocaine, thanks to their corrupt military. It was clear to the CIA and Pentagon that the contra effort required the support of Honduras, and that the price for this support was to overlook the cocaine traffic. ‘I watched the CIA […]
