[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] military intelligence ‘knows the identity’ of the sniper, and gives his age and address, this ‘is believed to be’ is a phoney: a phone call to the Pentagon would tell the British intelligence people whether the man was ex-special forces or not. The Times 23 December 1996 reported that Britain was expanding its ‘psychological […]
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
[…] 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. A flare-up in Cyprus might be the first stage. (On Cyprus, Christopher Hitchens’ Cyprus (1984) is of […]
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