[…] 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 […]
[…] US scholar of Southeast Asia in the post WW2 era. This memoir describes some of his travels in the 1945-70 period, when he behaved rather like a CIA officer (for which he was occasionally mistaken), talking to the rising movers and shakers in the region and returning to the United States with his knowledge, […]
“What would they want with me?” Lord Mountbatten had imperiously said to his secretary shortly before his death…… (1) Ulster Unionist M.P. Enoch Powell suggested that the CIA were involved in the murder of Earl Mountbatten of Burma in August 1979…”The Mountbatten murder was a high-level ‘job’ not unconnected with the nuclear strategy of […]
[…] the day of Kennedy’s killing.(12) His father never admitted to any involvement in the assassination, but did hint at some inside knowledge. He linked Lyndon Johnson with CIA agent Cord Meyer, who in turn was linked to a CIA black-ops specialist, David Morales. The latter was connected to – in Hunt’s words – the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] thing that Ms Rice denied was the use of torture. However, this must be seen in the context of what the Americans regard as torture. According to CIA Director Porter Goss, the CIA does not engage in torture but in ‘unique and innovative’ methods of prisoner interrogation. These methods include blows to the feet […]
A man with Friends The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s plot to kill the Pope Nigel West HarperCollins, London, 2000, £19.99 Let’s dispose of the ‘Third Secret’ nonsense. West claims that Pope John – the Polish Pope – was told the ‘third secret’ of the Fatima revelations; and that this ‘third […]
[…] big book, 425 pages of text, another 80 plus of notes, bibliography, index. It is well written, witty – a major landmark in the literature on the CIA. Although much of the content of the book will be familiar in outline if you have read the extant material on the Congress for Cultural Freedom […]
[…] archival evidence to document the origins of the Bilderberg Group. It also considers the various conspiracy theories which have attached themselves to the Group. Is it a CIA plot to undermine socialism or a socialist conspiracy to destroy the US’s capitalist, democratic institutions? The author concludes that the view of Bilderberg as a seat […]
