[…] under the pseudonym ‘John Scelso’) was finally declassified by the Assassination Records Review Board.(13) Morley has also written at length about one George Joannides, a Miami based CIA officer, responsible for monitoring one of the anti-Castro Cuban groups with which Oswald purportedly clashed in the summer of 1963.(14) The anniversary of the Miners’ Strike […]
[…] Lords. (‘Donald’s Mata Hari’, Daily Record 9 August 1999) The mystery of MRA solved? The Francis Stoner Saunders book on the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA, reviewed below, is full of riveting little snippets. The one that struck me first time I flipped through the index was this, on pp. 150/1. ‘…in […]
[…] California Press, Cambridge (UK) 1991, £8.95. The basic rule of politics, domestic and international is that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. That rule ensured that the CIA adopted as allies the opium growers of the Golden Triangle in the 1960s and 70s, and the heroin producing mujahadeen of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the […]
The Christic Institute’s allegations that there has been a ‘secret team’ of CIA and ex CIA personnel operating since the early 1960s right through to the present day have had a surprising amount of publicity in Britain considering that this is the kind of conspiracy theorising which is normally anathema to our straight media. […]
[…] good connections amongst the exiled anti-Castro Cubans who were then nearly as numerous in New Orleans as they were in Florida. He had probably worked for the CIA in some covert capacity, and on 22nd November 1963 had been in a New Orleans courtroom with Carlos Marcello, the Louisiana mafia boss, for whom he […]
[…] of intelligence should undertake a careful reading of the transcripts of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on the nomination of Robert Gates to be Director of the CIA. Consider just one incident, the textual appropriations, displacements, and strategies that surround the inquiry into the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II. […]
[…] it fails and I felt somebody had to speak up for intelligence standards. I did that. I got sacked and I don’t regret it for a moment.’ CIA is the source of a detailed study of the CIA’s ‘black budget’ by Dr Michael Salla. And an interesting glimpse of the scale of the CIA’s […]
Secrets and Lies: A history of CIA mind control and germ warfare Gordon Thomas JR Books (www.jrbooks.com) 2007, h/b, £20 Gordon Thomas has written a number of books on the intelligence services and this has a glossy cover, voluminous appendices and some admiring quotes. But it adds little to what we already know […]
[…] Hugh Thomas, chair of the Centre for Policy Studies under Thatcher; Ray Whitney, a Conservative MP and one-time head of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department; former CIA director James Schlesinger; another well known CIA man, Ray Cline; Robert McFarlane, former US National Security Adviser; and Irving Brown, former head of the international work […]
[…] of succeeding John as President. The mass media are interested primarily in making money, and in 1963 many sections of it still had secret relationships with the CIA established in the early years of the Cold War and would follow the Agency’s “no conspiracy’ line. (On which see the CIA memo reprinted in this […]
