See note (1) David Phillips, the former CIA officer considered by the Select Committee on Assassinations as a possible candidate for the true identity behind the cover name ‘”Maurice Bishop” -(2)- reacted strongly when this book was published in the summer of 1980. He contacted top executives in newspapers and television, making himself available […]
[…] in Lebanon. North’s operation was the disastrous culmination of a long history of ties between federal drug enforcement authorities and various arms of US intelligence, including the CIA. Like the Federal Bureau of Narcotics before it, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) enjoys expertise in undercover operations and special access to foreign informants and government […]
[…] radiation, and a host of even more disturbing technologies. Some of the projects exploring these areas were ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, PANDORA, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH and the infamous MKULTRA. The CIA was not the only government agency involved in this research. (1) Indeed, many branches of our government took part in these studies — including NASA, the […]
[…] hostages with Iran in October 1980 therefore failed because competing Israeli shipments were still ongoing. In October 1980, as he was attempting to bargain with Iran, the CIA detected the latest Israeli shipment of arms from the port of Eilat, which caused Carter to “go off the wall”. (LA Times, 11/22/86 and All Fall […]
[…] it seem rather implausible. The second theory is a mirror image of the first, in that the alleged sponsor of the attack on the Pope was the CIA, acting through its intermediaries, which are variously identified as one or more Western intelligence services and the networks of right-wing (including fascist) extremists in Turkey and […]
In 1953 Dr Drank Olsen, a scientist working for the CIA, was found dead on the pavement outside a New York hotel. The Agency instituted a cover-up of the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly […]
[…] in pursuit of their own political ends, of the resources, both finan cial and political, of the drug traffic. It was striking in the 1980s that the CIA, in its choice of Afghan mujahedin leaders to back against the Soviet Union, passed over those with indigenous support in favor of those, notably Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, […]
[…] great books about American politics as well as being one of the greatest pieces of research in recent time. Brutally summarised, Hougan’s central thesis is this. The CIA infiltrated the White House ‘Plumbers’ through Hunt and McCord (and, possibly, lower down through Cubans like Martinez). The ‘Plumbers’ ended up trying to get information on […]
[…] destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them.’ All that remained were hidden blueprints, computer disks, microfiches and production moulds. The CIA and MI6 were told the same story; and ‘a military aide who defected with Kamel………backed Kamel’s assertions about the destruction of WMD stocks.’ Although a Whitehouse […]
The CIA and Drugs One of the biggest stories in the six months since the last Lobster has been the CIA-deals-crack story. The Web site at has an enormous amount of information, including an important piece by Robert Parry, ‘Lost History: Contras, Dirty Money and the CIA.’ Another important background piece is Jack […]
