[…] the U.S.’s many covert and overt anti-Soviet operations of the 1980s. As you might expect with the author’s track record of accepting what the U.S. and U.K. intelligence services tell him, there is no consideration – none; not a line – of the massive critiques of the KGB-done-it thesis by Edward Herman and others […]
[…] of a kind of parallel CIA, which the authors call The Enterprise, in which a pantheon of well known names from the hard right of the American intelligence and military are said to be involved. But is it true? As presented here the answer can only be: it might be true. For, in the […]
[…] $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 […]
[…] a camera with a long lens can seem like a gun as it is pointed over a wall. The chances are that he was working for British Intelligence.’ Geraghty forthrightly condemns the Heath Government’s hard line policy, providing the fascinating detail that senior ministers had urged ‘an unlawful “shoot-to-kill” policy’ on the Army, but […]
[…] including an important piece by Robert Parry, ‘Lost History: Contras, Dirty Money and the CIA.’ Another important background piece is Jack Blum’s testimony to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee last year, which is reproduced in Covert Action Quarterly no. 59. However, in my opinion the two best pieces on the CIA-drugs issue which appeared […]
[…] eye-opening but unsuccessful spell in the real economy, into retirement as a country gentleman – that kind of rebel! Notes 14 There is nothing which throws light on the report in The Times of 2 April 2002 that Lord Carrington the Foreign Secretary had ignored reports of invasion fears coming from the Joint Intelligence Committee.
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the Campaign Against Foreign Control of New Zealand, from PO Box 2258, Christchurch, New Zealand; Big Sister – newsletter of the Organisation to Abolish the Security Intelligence Service, Box 1666, Wellington, New Zealand; New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone Committee, PO Box 18541, Christchurch, New Zealand, which publishes and distributes material on US/CIA operations […]
[…] 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! […]
[…] (Taylor Branch and Eugene M. Propper, Penguin 1983), the book about the 1976 assassination of Chilean opposition leader, Orlando Letelier. In mid-1975 General Pinochet ordered the Chilean intelligence service, DINA, to gather compromising material on the human rights situation in other countries. DINA dispatched an anti-Castro Cuban, Virgilio Paz, to Belfast to obtain photographs […]
