[…] $45, the Chinese-English chart, based on institutional and personnel changes since May 2000, outlined the government structure of China. The open information is the sort of thing intelligence officers used to collate. The Times 28 August 2006 The Guardian 26 January 2006 Following the first Gulf War, British civil engineering contractors were disappointed not […]
[…] be said, not a shred of evidence that Hollis ever passed a single piece of information to the Soviets, nor that he had any contacts with Soviet intelligence officers or agents. But this doesn’t hinder the conspiracy theorists who will seize on any scrap of evidence to bolster the Hollis theory. As history shows, […]
[…] volumes, Granny made me an anarchist (London: Scribner, 2004) . Recommended. Notes 1 Christie knew enough about Italian politics to write the biography of Italian terrorist and intelligence asset, Delle Chiaie. This is available from 2 There is one historical irony worth pointing out. Edward Heath, who made the British left (and Christie) angry […]
[…] Murrin told Sir Peter Blaker, ‘An alternative funding source really needs to be lined up but I can only leave that to you. My own network of intelligence is now building up and I would expect results after the summer.’ 30 July Owen Oyston resigned as chairman of Red Rose Radio. September Oyston bought […]
[…] exact opposite: he ‘believes’ no such thing. He is well aware of past weaknesses and details many of them, including sections on the media activities of the intelligence services and the Information Research Department. Davies’s belief is that today’s situation is bad and that the future looks bleak. Something troubling is going on when […]
[…] an obscure OSS officer. But Levenda needs the OSS link because the father of the actress Sharon Tait, the Manson gang’s most famous victim, was an American intelligence officer serving in Vietnam when she died. What he wants to say is: Look, both girls with spooks for fathers! Both killed by the Manson gang! […]
[…] Terrorism Industry: the experts and institutions that shape our view of Terror, written with Jerry O’Sullivan (for Pantheon Books, New York, 1990) an examination of the think-tanks, intelligence agents and assorted media manipulators who have attempted to develop ‘terrorism’ as a more cogent focus of political loyalty than the tattered remnants of its predecessor, […]
[…] be trying to ignore the CIA’s ‘confession’, even less attention has been paid to revelations of the retired Uraguyan Admiral Eladio Moll, one time head of Uraguay’s intelligence service. In July last year Moll testified before a Uraguayan congressional commission about ‘the gringo doctrine’ – ie the instructions from the US to its ‘allies’ […]
[…] death in January, I’ve started getting books from Andy Winiarczyk at the Last Hurrah Bookshop. The Last Hurrah specialises in books on JFK and related assassination and intelligence areas and publishes regular catalogs. Write or call Andy at 937 Memorial Avenue, Williamsport, PA 17701, USA: phone (international code) plus 717.327.9338. Probe, the newsletter of […]
[…] Phoenix, about which Valentine has written a widely-praised book, involved identifying and assassinating supporters of the North Vietnamese, while Operation Chaos was a domestic surveillance and counter- intelligence operation. But still: these quibbles aside, this big book (500 plus pages) is a fascinating collection of stories, and adds some major pieces to the vast […]
