[…] accused the CIA of sabotaging weapons inspections in Iraq by refusing to co-operate fully with the UN and withholding crucial information about Saddam Hussein’s arsenal. Led by Senator Carl Levin, the Democrats accused the CIA of making an assessment that the inspections were unlikely to be a success and then ensuring they would not […]
[…] a company devoted to producing better equipped American children, making educational software available to schools – at a price. Consultants to the firm include Bill Brock, former senator and chair of the Republican National Committee; Bob Stearns, a George W. appointee to a Texas technology board; Peter Su, a former presidential campaign advisor, and […]
[…] Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S. Adams, USAF (retd.), former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. (4) They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility […]
Political activist Daniel Ellsberg and Professor Alfred McCoy have something special in common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an … Read more
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
[…] and drug consultant to, the Center for International Development Policy, gathering information in support of the investigation into Drugs and Foreign Policy conducted at that time by Senator John Kerry. In that capacity I consulted with a number of experts in Washington inside and outside government. I was also a personal eyewitness to the […]
[…] the many, Hersh (in note 15); the new book by James Bamford, reviewed below; and the section under the names of Vice Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, Senator Carl Levin and Senator Richard Durbin at the end of the Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community and Prewar Intelligence […]
[…] MKULTRA records in financial files held by the Office of Technical Services which had not been indexed under the name MKULTRA. These documents became the subject of Senator Edward Kennedy’s hearings in 1977. The 1963 CIA Inspector General investigation report on MKULTRA states that the program was ‘concerned with research and development of chemical, […]
[…] this area.’ Among the half dozen senators supporting the programme, were Clairborne Pell and Robert C. Byrd . In the course of the programme, C. Richard D’Amoto, Senator Byrd’s staff member, and an intelligence specialist, several times successfully quashed DIA’s effort to kill the RV programme. British newspapers gave a variety of figures. The […]
[…] previously mentioned Coalition For Peace Through Strength. (CPS-US) Also speaking at the March 1982 British meeting were Morton Blackwell and Dick Minard. Blackwell was chief advisor to Senator Gordon Humphrey and Exec. Director of ECUD. He led the day-to-day assault on Warnke and represented, perhaps,’ the heart and soul of the ultra-conservative arm of […]
