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... the SAS, as an employee of David Stirling's Watchguard International, and as a member of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CI0). Stiff reveals, among other things, his involvement in a campaign of bombing and assassination in Zambia and in an abortive conspiracy to assassinate Robert Mugabe during the Lancaster House talks in London. After Aden, Stiff went on to help train the police in Kenya. ('In spite of the trainees being their top men, none, as is common with most Africans, could shoot straight, or seemed ...
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... Alliance Party HQ in 1974 during the General Election- suspected of being the work of the security forces. SAS activities in the Irish Republic, including the arrest of two patrols in plain clothes by the Irish police. The plot to recruit an ex-professional football player to assassinate Provisional IRA officer Martin Meehan in Dundalk. The leaking of material by MI5, on MI6 operations, including the production of a booklet on the Littlejohns, and information on Howard Marks. An attempt to assassinate ex-IRA officer Jim McCann in Holland where he was involved ...
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... the heroin trafficking Corsican Mafia, resigned from CIA, to be brought back at the suggestion of his old OSS colleague Howard Hunt into the White House narcotics effort. There, Conein (by his own admission) supervised a special unit which would have the capacity to assassinate selected targets in the narcotics business. (50) A memo of late May 1972, drafted by Hunt's superior in narcotic matters, Egil Krogh, reports on what is apparently President Nixon's authorisation for the Conein assassination squad, with the staggering budget of $100 ...
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... after the assassination, that he had seen Oswald at the Cuban Consulate receiving a large amount of money after making an offer to kill someone. Alvarado's claims found support from the American Ambassador in Mexico City who believed that "Castro was somehow involved in a plot to assassinate President Kennedy." The story turned out to be a disinformation exercise- Alvarado was a Nicaraguan intelligence officer (9)- though the real reason it was dropped was probably because the Nicaraguan was too close to CIA officers like David Phillips. Interestingly enough a ...
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... . He reveals that an envoy from George Young, then Deputy Director of MI6, appeared, somewhat the worse for drink, at a meeting in Beirut. "Apologising neither for his lateness nor his condition he took over the meeting. Teams had been fielded to assassinate Nasser, he informed us, and then rambled on about bloody Egyptians who had planned to turn the Middle East over to the 'commies'. His voice trailing off, he finally sank in his chair and passed out." (emphasis added). Perhaps ...
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... an American plane and pilot were captured, and the CIA efforts were accompanied by an offshore task force of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. (35) In 1975 a Senate Select Committee studying the CIA discovered what it called 'some evidence of CIA involvement in plans to assassinate President Sukarno'; but, after an initial investigation of the November 1957 assassination attempt at Cikini, the Committee did not pursue the matter. (36) On August 1, 1958, after the failure of the CIA-sponsored PRRI-Permesta regional rebellions against Sukarno, the ...
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... is evidence that other sections of the security services were actively inciting the loyalists to kill Finucane; and, of course, Douglas Hogg, then a junior Home Office minister, had publicly fingered solicitors sympathetic to republicanism. More successful was FRU disapproval of UDA plans to assassinate Gerry Adams. In the end, what brought Nelson down was the RUC Special Branch's investigation into the loyalist murder gangs. They established a link between loyalist attacks and the imposition of exclusion zones. The operation was wound up with Nelson being sacrificed. The best ...
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... research.) In the mid 1970s RD paid half a million dollars to Edward J. Epstein for his Legend, which tried, unsuccessfully, to attribute Lee Harvey Oswald to the KGB. On Legend, see my essay in Lobster 2. The KGB Plot To Assassinate The Pope: A Case Study In Free World Disinformation Frank Brodhead and Edward S. Herman in Covert Action No 19. Last¦ Contents¦ Next ...
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... car crash in Wexford to do with a plot to kill the Pope?", the opening paragraph of the first article reads: "A car mishap on an Irish road has raised the shattering spectre that the US Central Intelligence Agency is implicated in the plot to assassinate Pope John Paul 2 in Rome in May 1981." According to Magill "from reading the article in the Sunday Press it is impossible to see how this conclusion is drawn." The same day another Dublin paper, the Sunday Independent (which had been ...
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... to develop personal sources of information from FBI men who were bypassing J. Edgar Hoover and going directly to him. Some CIA people were following a similar route and avoiding the agency.... when he heard that Big Minh and his group were planning to assassinate Diem, he wanted to make a direct contact. He was hesitant about the embassy in Saigon because he could not trust his people there. So he called on Torby who... told Diem "They're going to kill you. You've got to get ...
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