Part 1 Issue 24 of the Covert Action Information Bulletin (Summer 1985) is chiefly devoted to recent activities of U.S. government agents and agents provocateurs inside radical and labour organisations: the ‘sanctuary movement’, the Native American movement and one industrial dispute, are analysed as case studies. They are preceded by a long essay, “The New … Read more
[…] to work. Our conversations were affable. I took him fresh fruit which he was allowed to eat only during the visit (in case they were impregnated with drugs!) He showed sincerity and loyalty to his own beliefs — which I did not share — and did not try to help himself into an early […]
MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more
Frost/Nixon Or, a load of old dick When Frost/Nixon first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London back in 2006 I wondered why on earth anyone would want to stage, to recreate, what was, essentially, a non-event. Why indeed? One can imagine mere actors relishing the opportunity to ‘interpret’ Frost and Nixon but who … Read more
[…] did the same with Russian students. The intelligence value was nil. In the early sixties the CIA placed a lot of hopes on ‘mind control’, experimenting with drugs, hypnosis and programming a la ‘Manchurian Candidate’. The most bizarre episode in Beck’s book concerns an attempt by a CIA shrink to hypnotise a suspected double […]
The three Arrigos In the last Lobster (‘Spookaroonie’, p. 26) I noted the comments on <intelforum.org> of Maria Arrigo, a ‘social psychologist with experience in [intelligence] operations’ asking for evidence of ‘covert weapons experiments in post-war South America’ and wondered what was afoot. It was just an interesting little snippet which I came across at … Read more
[…] Its aggrieved depositors and creditors began an unprecedented action last year against the Bank of England for failing to regulate a bank known for its involvement in drugs, money laundering, funny accounting and as a financial conduit for assorted intelligence agencies. Last year the court heard of a meeting 1989 between Lord Callaghan and […]
[…] death. It follows the current government line of seeking to justify the continued existence of the intelligence services by reference to economic intelligence, the so-called ‘war on drugs’ (which was lost about 20 years ago, even if it was worth fighting in the first place) and organised crime. With a straight face Smith assures […]
A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about […]
[…] W. Cleon Skousen, attributing the whole of the sexual-cultural changes of the post-war era to ‘the communists’. Crozier rather half-heartedly even tries to lay the spread of drugs at the door of the KGB. Crozier indeed, did appear to claim the credit for her election at a meeting of the Pinay Circle. See Lobster […]
