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The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs
[…] dropped. Millions dead and often permanent environmental damage was done to health and livelihoods as ‘19 million gallons of toxic herbicides’, and indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange were unleashed on Vietnam. The infamous Phoenix Program of assassination and terror with an estimated 70,000 Vietnamese deaths replete with sadistic torture chambers. Whole populations […]
Fifteen years on from 9/11
[PDF file]: […] many in the Pakistan military were very strongly supportive of al-Qaeda.4 6 We know, for example, from the work of Peter Lance that at least one double agent, Ali Mohammed, was close to senior figures within al-Qaeda and the US. We also know that British-born Sheikh Saeed, who, according to former Pakistan president Pervez […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in […]
Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA
[…] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed
Contents Lobster 58 When the Lights Went Out Britain in the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in […]
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves by Matthew Sweet
[PDF file]: […] an area known as the Black Section, though, apparently, Angleton took little interest in it. According to Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts […]