[PDF file]: […] the apartheid South African state’s Project Coast, its exploration and use of chemical and biological weapons; and an account of the Unification Church (the ‘Moonies’), the Korean CIA and the World Anti-Communist League – all fine pieces of detailed parapolitical work. And then 9/11 happens and Bale sets out to explain On-line at or […]
[PDF file]: […] half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very good, very well informed and a pleasure to read (and reread). I would […]
[PDF file]: […] Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now DARPA with ‘Defense’ tagged on) initiated a classified project entitled Some Upper Atmosphere Aspects of Chemical Geophysical Warfare. A year later, the CIA began a cloud seeding operation designed to rain off Buddhist protests in Saigon. It was latter revealed to be a common practice by the US in […]
[PDF file]: […] the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen […]
[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in the ‘Soviet threat’ triggered the formation of the anti-subversion lobby which gathered round Brian Crozier in the early 1970s – CIA, MI6 and IRD personnel who were not persuaded of the decline of the ‘Soviet threat’. (This was part of the wider debate about the reality of […]
[PDF file]: […] than anything Nagl is prepared to acknowledge. Today, the US is trying to protect its imperial interests with proxy armies that it trains, equips and supports with CIA and special forces operations, aerial bombardment and drone attack. This is the age of the Dirty Wars, the age of a global Phoenix Programme. John Newsinger […]
[PDF file]: […] century of research. He continues: ‘…….Over the years, pretty much everyone Jack Kennedy offended, and everyone Lee Harvey Oswald met, has been accused of involvement: the FBI; CIA; ONI; the KGB; Cuban intelligence; anti-Castro Cubans; the mafia; White Russians; the KKK and NSRP.’ Who is missing from the list? Kennedy’s vice president, Lyndon Johnson, […]
[PDF file]: […] General Sir John Kerr, who sacked him in November 1975. In true Seventies fashion, some furious Whitlam supporters claimed that Kerr had acted on orders from the CIA.’ Wheen does not offer an opinion on whether the ‘furious Whitlam supporters ‘ were right or wrong (I don’t think he cares); he’s interested in the […]
[PDF file]: […] originator of ‘garbology’, principally rooting through Bob Dylan’s dustbins, and compiling a 500-page concordance of Dylan’s songs in his guise as a ‘Dylanologist’. There’s a lot of him on YouTube. 3 A J Weberman and Michael Canfield, Coup d’état in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (New York: Third Press, 1975).
