[…] neglected provenance in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. The crippling of the 455-foot USS Liberty, a SIGINT intelligence vessel run jointly by the US navy and the NSA, in a sustained two hour attack by Israeli bombers and torpedo craft at the height of the 1967 Middle East war, is still regarded as a […]
[…] very large It’s been years since anything from Rolling Stone has seemed worthy of note but in 2005 it published a long piece by chronicler of the NSA, James Bamford, on the American private sector psy-ops/perception managers, the Rendon Group: ‘The man who sold the war: meet John Rendon’.() Bamford’s essay shows the enormous […]
[…] by the US. ‘The UK has no intelligence assets in central Asia. We are dependent on information giv- en to us by the United States’ CIA and NSA.’ The British overseas lobby in Whitehall like Tony Blair still dreams of being a ‘world player’. But it doesn’t have the tax resources to […]
[…] long been full of military spooks – General Charles P. Cabell and Admiral Stansfield Turner, for instance. But, according to Coleman, CIA has already lost control of NSA to the Pentagon, who will also run the new Defense Human Intelligence Service (DHIS). DHIS, which will be at the heart of future covert ops, will […]
[…] satellites, and communications satellites.’ (Britannica Yearbook, 1963, p.757) 20 September 1963: JFK made a speech at UN, proposing joint US/USSR Moon Program. 12 November 1963: Kennedy issued NSA Memorandum #271 to NASA Administrator instructing him to personally develop ‘a program of substantive co-operation with the Soviet Union in the field of outer space…… including […]
Sources CD-Rom JFK Assassination: a Visual Investigation Wilbur Films Multimedia, Medio Multimedia Inc Redmond, WA 98025-5515, USA, 1993. CD-Rom The Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination Bob Harris and Jane Rusconi ZCI Publishing, The Infomart, 1950 Stemmons, Suite 6048 Dallas TX 75207-3109, USA. 1994 The writer of this review is of the generation that still can […]
[…] excellent, detailed piece carrying Boston’s comments (1) also contains a number of quotes from senior administration officials of the period, including Richard Helms, Clark Clifford and former NSA head Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, all rejecting the ‘accident’ thesis. The Malcolm Kennedy case A potentially important development in the Malcolm Kennedy case (see previous Lobsters) […]
Why do they do this? In the previous issue I referred to the fictitious comments attributed by Tony Blair to a doctor in Africa. They’ve done it again. In February Blair’s spin doctor in chief, Alastair Campbell, claimed to have saved a man from being beaten by muggers, The Mail on Sunday (23 February) traced […]
[…] all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. government has funded […]
[…] told me that the Israeli attack was deliberate, not an accident: Secretary of State Dean Rusk Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer CIA Director Richard Helms NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella. I am no authority on conspiracy theories, but there seem to be three possibilities here. A) Rusk, Moorer, Helms and Tordella were […]
