Old spooks’ tales John Loftus is probably best known in this country for his The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983). His latest, The Secret War against the Jews, contains the largest number of new allegations, and alleged revelations about the post-war era, of any book I have read. However, many of these new claims are sourced to ‘interview with old spook’. Loftus (and co-author Mark Aarons) claim to have interviewed hundreds of elderly, unidentified, retired intelligence officers for the information in the book. Though this is deeply unsatisfactory, it is nonetheless a very striking read.
Loftus did a long radio interview with the American broadcaster Dave Emory, which is reproduced in Emory’s new magazine Other Means. Like the book, Loftus’ interview is dotted with fascinating bits and pieces. For example:
- ‘After Nixon’s narrow loss to Kennedy and the narrow loss of Dewey to Truman, Nixon was determined to mobilize his own political bloc. He was convinced that the American Jews had dollars, voted Democrat, and were his enemies. So he felt he needed a bloc to offset them – the Eastern European groups, despite their fascist nature. Nixon recruited their leaders to form an Ethnic Committee. He promised that, if he won the election in 1968, he would make them a permanent part of the Republican National Committee…’
- ‘…in 1944…the British asked the FBI if they could bug American Jews. And Hoover, a great anti-semite himself, said, sure….[now] we have the British using American equipment to bug American Jews. In England we use American intelligence officers using British equipment to bug British Jews. That way each side can claim to their governments, “Oh, we don’t spy on our own citizens.” ……..by the time of the Bush administration we were collecting rosters of kids going to Jewish summer camps…..’
- ‘In every war the Israelis have fought US and British intelligence have given all Israel’s secrets to the Arabs….. the guy who saved Israel in the ’73 war was the White House Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig….’
- ‘BCCI – the joke is that it stands for British Cover for Collecting Intelligence. The British came up with the idea of a phony Arab bank so they can trace terrorist money….. unfortunately the British put a bunch of Pakistani crooks in charge of the day-to-day operations of the bank, and they ended up costing innocent people around the world some $20 billion dollars in losses…’
- ‘Well, there was no ‘oil shortage’ ….the whole scam was intended to make sure Carter was a one-term president. As soon as Reagan came in office, all of a sudden the CIA miraculously reversed their dramatic doomsday predictions that oil was running out and the world was awash in oil…’
Other Means, Summer 1997
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