[…] CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 39-45 ADVISER TO SEFTON DELMER POLITICAL WARFARE EXECUTIVE AUTHOR McDOWELL, THOMAS B. MI5 (THE CECIL KING DIARIES 1970-74) WW2 ULSTER RIFLES 50-60’s MI5 STAFF SUBSEQUENTLY AGENT BARRISTER, BUSINESSMAN -83 MANAGING EDITOR IRISH TIMES McHUGH, J.N. 44-45 FORCE 136 BLACK PROPAGANDA -50 DIR. INFORMATION DEPT. MALAYA 52-53 DEPUTY DIR-GEN. INFO DEPT. MACINTOSH, MAJ. […]
[…] Padreda, a fellow officer of the Dade County Republican Party. Padreda, a former intelligence officer for deposed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, hired Jeb Bush as the leasing agent for a $1.4 million building Padreda had used federal money to build – money from the corrupt Department of Housing and Urban Development.(34) Four years earlier, […]
[…] Inside BOSS, South Africa’s Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) “BOSS assigned me to monitor the activities of Richard Gibson (exposed in 1969 as a CIA agent), who was a talented journalist then representing Negro Press International and ‘Tuesday’ magazine. I discovered that Mr Gibson, born in California in 1931, was an amazing […]
Chip Berlet This 63-page essay describes a wide range of contacts between what in a British context would be described as right-wing conspiracy theorists and the left. Berlet documents a range of contacts between the far-right Liberty Lobby, followers of LaRouche, Bo Gritz and the Populist Party, the Christic Institute, Radio Free America and a … Read more
[…] laid etc etc. Along the way ‘West’ drops a number of tidbits: an intricate explanation, going back to pre-war days, of how Philby was really a triple agent; and a version of the ‘peace plotting’ circa 1940 by the British right which purports to demonstrate that the ‘plot’ was really a Soviet operation – […]
The Spycatcher’s Encyclopedia of Espionage Peter Wright Heinemann, Australia, 1991 The cover-blurb says this is ‘the rest of the story’. It feels more like the out-takes from Spycatcher spiced with a few more fragments of interesting gossip. And I do mean fragments: the interesting bits of 260 pages — largish print and much white space … Read more
A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 … Read more
[…] Agency sponsored, subsidized, or produced 1,000 books… For example, a book written for an English speaking audience by one CIA operative was reviewed favourably by another CIA agent in the New York Times. Until February 1976, when it announced a new policy towards U.S. media personnel, the CIA maintained covert relationships with about 50 […]
[…] probably be against the civilian population of large cities. It can be well imagined the degree of consternation, as well as fear and apprehension, that such an agent would produce upon a large urban population.'(6) Hamilton made a number of proposals for the elimination of large populations, among them ‘fission product aerosols to subject […]
[…] to the GLC in Croydon North East in March 1980. He was later a Labour councillor in Islington in 1982-1986 and thereafter for many years an election agent and researcher for Jeremy Corbyn MP. An accurate monograph of his political activity and connections would make interesting reading. He has a particular interest in Kurdish […]
