[…] that this was a very remarkable book was correct. It was. This is centrally an account of some of the bureaucratic struggles inside the CIA during the Reagan years when the in-coming Know-nothing administration decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to […]
[…] August 28, 1991). In fact, arms merchant Ari Ben-Menasche identified Cardoen as the person who brokered the deal between Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super secret agent; Casolaro wanted fodder for a novel. […]
[PDF file]: […] claimed to have registered some 3 million Christians to vote in its first year of existence and, at its height, had some 7 million supporters. When Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency against Jimmy Carter in 1980, he assiduously courted this new Christian Right with his platform committee meeting with the Moral Majority leadership […]
[PDF file]: […] . . they proved that their faith in the fear-mongering politics of Small Government outweighed their solidarity with those washed in the blood of Christ’. Backing Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter, he goes on, ‘set the stage for the Christian Right’s shocking sacrifice of Christianity on the altar of free enterprise in 2016’. (p. […]
[PDF file]: […] details of Operation Desert Eagle itself. Behind the scenes Casey approached Mohammed Hashemi, a CIA agent in Iran, and negotiated his own secret deal on behalf of Reagan, whereby the US promised to sell large quantities of high tech weapons secretly to Iran for their war, but on condition that Tehran hung onto the […]
[PDF file]: […] support for Ronald Reagan’s obsession with ‘protecting’ Central America in general and Nicaragua in particular – ‘America’s backyard’, in the parlance of the day. Messrs Murdoch and Reagan first met on 18 January 1983, just five days after Reagan had been informed by lawyers that (since Congress would quite obviously never approve it) the […]
[PDF file]: […] make even a provisional judgement possible). Paul Craig Roberts is one example. If one reads his work over the entire time span from his days in the Reagan administration until today, he appears to have become about as vehement an anticapitalist as one can imagine. At the same time, at least in correspondence I […]
[PDF file]: […] is the extent to which it is the United States that is the real object of Murdoch’s affection. While he was very close to Thatcher, it was Reagan and Reaganism that ‘were the most important influences on Rupert Murdoch’s political world view’. This is an important corrective. Indeed, when Thatcher and Reagan disagreed, as […]
[PDF file]: […] an extremely influential association of scholars, jurists, and legal professionals, including members of the US high judiciary, that considers itself to be conservative and libertarian. 9 Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Dinner of the Conservative Political Action Conference, 1 March 1985. Salvadoran population was either killed or forced into exile by ‘freedom fighters’.) […]
[PDF file]: […] circles. The guests at Spence’s parties including the likes of William Casey, the CIA Director from 1981 until 1987, and Joseph diGenova, ‘a US Attorney for the Reagan administration’ who ‘would go on – with his wife, 2 Reagan deputy assistant Attorney General Victoria Toensing – to work with mafia-affiliated oligarchs and serve as […]
