[…] Henry (Scoop) Jackson, Paul Nitze (Coalition for a Democratic Majority) (CDM); ideologues like Rostow and Podhoretz (the latter editor of the ‘neo-conservative’ Commentary); hardline dissenters in the intelligence community such as Daniel Graham (ex head DIA) who is ECUD Chairman; and the grass roots New Right symbolised by Weyrich. The CSFC and CDM worked […]
[…] would be the key figure in arranging the formation of the CCF, and he is a good example of someone who moved easily between intellectual, political, and intelligence circles.(32) He came to prominence through his single-handed disruption of the German Writers Congress held in East Berlin in October 1947 by complaining about the lack […]
[…] told me the story himself very shortly after it had all happened (I was researching a doctorate at Birmingham at the time). The UK becomes a US intelligence target Of course the old undercurrents of distrust did not go away after the foundation of the wartime Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. There is an interesting snippet […]
[…] MA; Professor of Politics and Comparative Ideologies, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Dr Alan Sabrosky PhD MA The Duke of St Albans OBE Former Colonel in Intelligence T F Utley CBE Dr M H Waring PhD MA (Brazil) Norris McWhirter Now in charge of the resources generated by Guinness Book of Records, McWhirter […]
[…] evidence, though I do intend pursuing it further. Obviously such a shadowy company is open to all kinds of theories. It could have been used for economic intelligence, as suggested by Shaw. Equally, it could have been used to finance politicians. But where is the evidence for any of that? If there is such […]
[…] think it was ‘an inside job’. But this does not mean that there is nothing to be investigated. As with most official reports into events with sensitive intelligence and/ or political dimensions – and 9/11 had both, in spades – the report into 9/11 was concerned with establishing the official narrative (Al Qaeda attacks) […]
[…] late 1950s covered by Carew. They had their own ideas; there was conflict. And there was also Joseph McCarthy. Carew concludes: ‘Links formed within the world of intelligence are not easily broken, and there is no reason at all to suppose that the winding-up of the FTUC and the termination of CIA operations funded […]
[…] which point it gets very complicated for, thanks to John Armstrong’s research, it seems very likely that there were two ‘Oswalds’ and that some kind of elaborate intelligence operation was being run with them. This was Armstrong’s view in 1997: ‘In the early 1950s an intelligence operation was underway that involved two teenage boys: […]
[…] 1943 the Office of Alien Property (Tesla’s next of kin was a Yugoslav citizen — i.e. an alien national), assisted by the FBI, the ONI and Military Intelligence – quite a crowd, really, to fit into a small apartment – took the 80 crates into ‘Government’ custody. The following month they were unpacked and […]
[…] naff poetry), part rock culture trivia, and three huge pieces; ‘The CIA’s manipulation of the Labour Party’, ‘The FBI’s secret war against the American Indians’ and ‘British intelligence and covert action: how the British state supports international terrorism’. It’s a funny mixture. Page 181 is a cartoon strip which depicts Arnold Swarzenegger as Jesus […]
