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... and 1947 he was warning the Americans of an imminent Russian invas-ion of Italy. And, of course, in the 1948 elections in Italy, the Vatican threw all of its resources, both spiritual and material, into the battle with the Left. As is well known, the Vatican acted as a conduit for the transfer of CIA funds to the Christian Democrats. As for 'the pope's audacious ratline venture', Phayer argues that it was once again his anti-Communism that lay behind the operation. As far as Pius was con-cerned, Nazi war criminals were first and foremost anti-Communists and this was more important than any mass murder they might have ...
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... But I am probably being unduly picky. This is a far better and more complete version of Australia's political police than we have had from any British academic looking at our MI5. For example, his account of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, though cautious by the standards of the Australian left, does refer to the role of the CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(6 ) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about 'the Wilson plots'? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, 'The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal', is available ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-44.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 56) Winter 2008/9 Last | Contents | Next Issue 56 The gentleman in velvet James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b , $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing – here was the antithesis of the dull, one-dimensional plodders in the FBI (or, for that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 115 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-49.htm
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... in the High Court after a legal ruling rejected the argument that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal has exclusive jurisdiction to try human rights claims against the intelligence services.(6 ) Happy families The journal Qualitative Inquiry has published a special issue focusing on Harold Lloyd Goodall, Jr. 's book A need to know: the clandestine history of a CIA family (Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2006). 'By locating his narrative within scholarship dedicated to family secrecy and to cultural histories of the cold war and war on terror [Goodall] connects the long term consequences of growing up in a family marked by secrecy and fear to the long term consequences of a people ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 66 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-42.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 56) Winter 2008/9 Last | Contents | Next Issue 56 Here, there and everywhere Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and 'the boys' are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler and, finally and fatally, government informant. Hopsicker goes into much more detail and ends up with Seal as a kind of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 52 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-50b.htm
... later replaced in London by another, SMB Europe Ltd., in 1994. Siddiqui also went on separately to form his own front company in 1995, Orland Europe Ltd. Given that the official story regarding BCCI, namely that it was to be the 'honeytrap' for black market, illegal and terrorist operations, we might assume that the CIA was at this point aware of Siddiqui, if not the network itself. On 11 January 1999, H. M. Customs agent Maxine Crook paid Orland Europe a visit, following a tip off from MI6. She testified later that the purpose of her visit was to inform Siddiqui about export regulations (including exports for which licences would ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 50 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-36.htm
... the Governmental Affairs Institute, 'the embassy clearly indicated that it was possible that she would become the first female PM of Britain. ' This raises two points. The minor one is that this supports Gordon Winter. For in his memoir Inside BOSS, Winter describes (p . 186) a 1968 meeting with Cecil Eprille a employee of the CIA front, Forum World Features, whom he quotes as saying, 'There's a feeling in America that she could become Britain's first woman prime minister', and suggesting that Winter do some detailed research about her and write a feature for Forum World Features. The significant one is to what extent is the American embassy's description of someone as 'she ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-26.htm
... approach to political power, since Texas was overwhelmingly Democratic at that time. He was to accomplish this through a company he founded called Zapata Oil, a very interesting history of which appears on Wikipedia and is well worth looking at, so will not be repeated here. Suffice to say that for Bush, Zapata provided a useful cover for CIA activities. The CIA's Bay of Pigs fiasco was even code-named Zapata. Through Zapata, Bush got the political propulsion he required.(5 ) Carlyle One of the most rewarding aspects of being a has-been statesman is the lucrative market for speeches; and George Bush Snr's retirement was no exception. A single appearance could ...
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... . Saddam Hussein joined a failed Ba'athist conspiracy in 1959 to assassinate President Quasim, who had gained power the year before in a nationalist coup that killed the Iraqi royal family and the prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein's faction of the Ba'athist party into power. The leaders took advantage of CIA help, but Al-Ani argues that they remained independent of US influence. The new administration created, on the basis of nationalised oil revenues, a semi-industrialised authoritarian state with strong social benefits unknown elsewhere in the Middle East. In 1979 Saddam Hussein thrust himself into power. His most fatal error, claims Al-Ani ...
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... and appointed by Kennedy as Ambassador to Vietnam, possibly to keep him out of the running for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge would drag his heels at reaching any accommodation with Vietnam's President Diem, while the CIA's Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering 'Quiet American' style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue to make it look like the Catholic Diem was responsible, they could back Kennedy into a position from which he could not escape, exactly as they hoped had occurred with the Bay of Pigs. Having set out both Kennedy's vulnerability, and the desirability of his removal ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-46b.htm
