McKinney/Africa/covert action
Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand
Red spiels
The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted on its website translations of the Mao-Khrushchev conversations of 1958/9. Click on the ‘CWIHP Dossiers’ link on the CWIHP website http://cwihp.si.edu/dossiers.htm
Anti-red spiels
Lawrence Black’s ‘”The Bitterest Enemies of Communism”; Labour Revisionists, Atlanticism and the Cold War’ (Contemporary British History, Autumn 2001) is a very interesting paper, (29 pages with 150 notes) which contains a lot of new material. Black is that unusual creature, an academic historian who has included Bilderberg in his account.
AIDS
Remember all the conspiracy theories claiming that the AIDS virus had been a US military experiment? This seemed to have been dealt with when word emerged from the former Soviet Union that the whole thing had been a Soviet psychological operation. But now a black American, Dr. Boyd Graves, has uncovered a hitherto secret, massive US government research programme into viruses, some of which sound awfully like AIDS to this non-scientist. www.boydgraves.com
Mind Control Forum
The best source for first-hand accounts of alleged experiences of the new mind control technology is Mind Control Forum which has moved and is now at: Whistleblower’s Switchboard, www.angelfire.com/extreme/harassment/index.html
EM Warfare trial?
What appears to be evidence of an electromagnetic attack (mistake? field trial?) on a radio station in Tennessee, USA, is to be found at www.ecologynews.com/cuenews31.html
More details, photographs and eye-witness reports are at http://www.greatdreams.com/1090wjkm.htm
MKUltra documents
A large collection of MKULTRA documents has now been posted at www.intellnet.org/mkultra.
Chemtrails
A correspondent living in Monaco, David Hale, reported the appearance in the sky there of the dreaded chemtrails – the systematic spraying of chemicals in the atmosphere by large jets. There is now undeniable evidence of this to be found at the following Websites: http://islandnet/~ibnews and www.carnicom.com The former is run by William Thomas who had an interesting piece on the subject in Nexus (October/ November 2001).
Free Hagar extracts
One of the most influential books of recent years has been Nicky Hagar’s book on Echelon which triggered the on-going Echelon controversy. Extracts from it are at http://mediafilter.org/echelon/
Spooks down under
Dr David Turner writes: the story of how the Australian security files were prised open (and what they reveal) is an interesting one. Below are some useful links on this.
- http://journalism.uts.edu.au/staff/spies.html – David McKnight, ‘Australia’s Spies and their Secrets’
- http://jinx.sistm.unsw.edu.au/~greenlft/1996/241/241p13.htm – Gerry Hanant, ‘ASIO – Sinister blockheads’
- www.abc.net.au/time/episodes/ep8a.htm – text of an ABC programme.
Jonestown
Large amounts of serious data on the strange Jonestown massacre (on which see Jim Hougan in Lobster 37) is to be found at www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~remoore/jonestown/jtreport2.html and www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~remoorejonestown/jtreport.html
Kurds
Two big pieces of research by Desmond Fernandes on the European-wide oppression of the Kurds. The first is ‘United States and NATO inspired “psychological warfare operations” against the “Kurdish communist threat” in Turkey’, published in the Glasgow-based magazineVariant no. 12: www.ndirect.co.uk/~variant
The second is a monograph,The Targeting and Criminalisation of Kurdish Asylum Seekers and Refugee Communities in the UK and Germany, available from The Peace in Kurdistan Campaign, 44 Ainger Road, London NW3 3AT. Tel 020 7586 5892, Fax 020 7483 2531; or from Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9DX. Price: £5.00
Archives/Released Documents
(collected by Jane Affleck)
- Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Audiotapeswww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/
Documents relating to attempts by the New York Times and Washington Post to publish stories on the Pentagon Papers in June 1971 against US government attempts to suppress publication. - CIA Stalling State Dept Histories on Indonesia, July 2001‘State Historians conclude US passed names of Communists to Indonesian Army, which killed at least 105,000 in 1965-66.’ www.edu.gwu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/ NSAEBB52/
State Dept. documentary histories whose release was stalled by the CIA. The volume on Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines 1964-68 includes docs on Indonesian Army’s campaign against Indonesian Communist Party, which bought Suharto to power and US involvement in the killings.
- Chile Documentation Projectwww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm
Chile: 16,000 Secret US Documents Declassified. Press Release at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20001113/ - The Real 13 Days – The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ Includes a detailed chronology of events relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis; images of Soviet missile installations and declassified documents: declassified intelligence reports, national security memoranda, cables, letters and summaries.
- CIA’s Historical Review Programwww.foia.ucia.gov/net_princeton.htm
Analytic reports on the former Soviet Union produced by the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence during 1951-1991, declassified and released March 2001 and transferred to NARA (National Archives and Records Administration, www.nara.gov)
At www.foia.ucia.govsearch2.htm is a searchable collection of CIA documents already released under FOIA legislation.