Parapolitics/Intelligence
November 1984 – February 1985
The usual invaluable mixture of precis of stories from the world’s press plus reprints of some entire articles and the occasional original piece. November’s includes a long and excellent piece by Jonathan Marshall on the Strange career of Ronald Hedley Stark.
PP/Intelligence subscriptions $20 payable to ADI at ADI, 16 Rue des Ecoles, 75005, Paris.
Critique: a journal of conspiracies and metaphysics
PO box 11451 Santa Rosa, CA 95406 USA
This is a curious journal, somehow archetypically Californian. The articles range from the serious, well researched, to the downright sloppy and cranky. (To be kinder I might say the editor has catholic taste.) The editor describes it as ‘exploring unusual, esoteric disturbing and mysterious realities.”
So, in the current issue, for example, alongside a reprint of our piece on Golitsyn, there is something titled “Return of the Baal” (a courageous esoteric analysis of global events), “the paper/tree plague” and “Satanism and America.”
Individual copies $11 – not cheap but the journal averages 150 pages. Worth a look if you’ve got the money.
Foreign Policy
Every few years an American academic writes a long piece bemoaning the inability of the US intelligence services to accurately predict world events. The latest example is from Allen Goodman (ex CIA) in Foreign Policy, Winter 1984/85.
It’s the usual catalogue of disasters, and the usual catalogue of ignorance and self-deception. These academics are always either surprised or shocked to discover that American politicians are inclined to shoot the messenger bearing the bad news and, as a result, the intelligence agencies do their best to bring only good news. (Which is usually inaccurate.)
About the only interesting sections in this piece are those describing the way the Reagan administration has taken the logical step of trying to get the intelligence agencies to produce ‘proof’ of their various conspiracy theories about the world.
The logic of Goodman’s article appears to be that what the US intelligence service needs is a bunch of Marxists to do its analyses for it. With the US empire in decline, a Marxist perspective would produce an accurate picture.
Grassy Knoll Gazette
The February 1985 edition of the Grassy Knoll Gazette (see also the review of the 007 pamphlet) contains the transcript of a radio phone-in conversation with Gordon Novel. Novel is one of those people who have appeared at various points in the clandestine history of the US from 1963 onward. Novel’s jumbled contributions are difficult to make too much sense of but he does clearly state that “Garrison found out from Walter Sheridan … that I’d been working with Bobby Kennedy to expose Garrison’s investigation as a fraud.”.
Did we know this? I didn’t.
Survey of personnel and income of Adam Smith Institute, AIMS, CPS, Economic League etc in Labour Research February 1985.
Anyone interested in the details of Oleg Bitov’s statement/fairy story concerning British intelligence’s ‘kidnapping’ of him can see some of them in Current Digest of the Soviet press Vol 36 no.38
Interesting report in Western Daily Mail (2 January 1985) about the existence of secret societies in Wales, one of which is said to have been in existence for 300 years. Article based on a collection Crisis of Economy and Ideology from British Sociological Association.
Profile (New Statesman 23 November 1984) of Cransley Onslow MP, detailing some of his background in British intelligence in the 1950s and ’60s.
The LaRouche Connection by Dennis King and Ronald Radosh. (The New Republic 19 November 1984)
A long, detailed account of the loony Lyndon LaRouche and his org. This includes a history of LaRouche’s thinking (sic) and, more relevant for today, an account of some of the connections these fruitcakes have made with minor figures within the Reagan administration.
Interesting conspiracy theory claiming – but not proving – that the CIA have been behind the ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy. Specifically that the CIA have: (a) been behind the Red Brigades (b) organised the current Mafia/P2 episodes to discredit Andreotti. (New Statesman 25 Jan. 1985)
Also in the New Statesman (11 Jan 1985) Duncan Campbell (Thatcher goes for Nerve gas), using leaked documents, shows that this government is on the verge of ordering nerve gas for the British military.
We have to say that we have had information (Special Branch please note: not written anywhere, so please don’t turn us over looking for it) that this is all a smoke screen, and the UK government is already buying it using GEC (America) as its front.
A new catalogue is out from Tom Davis Books, formerly Aries Research. this is the greatest mail order catalogue extant on parapolitics/conspiracies etc. This new edition is even more mind-boggling than the last. Invaluable even if you can’t afford to order any (many) of the books. The catalogue enables you to order them from the library. Write for a copy to:
PO Box 1107, Aptos, CA 95001-1107. USA.
Reproduced below is his magazine section.
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