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 […]
[…] falling out between the US and Britain was due in part to misunderstandings about covert action. The US favoured ‘ Nasser…. gradually with the help of the CIA and MI6, while Eden, Lloyd, and Macmillan preferred to proceed more swiftly with the help of the Israeli army and the Royal Navy.’ Douglas Little, ‘Mission […]
[…] organised crime. Which is to say the FBN was a political loose cannon in both overseas and domestic policy, engaged in continual bureaucratic warfare with the FBI, CIA, and local police forces, repeatedly discovering things that were supposed to stay hidden and trying to arrest ‘the wrong people’. In the introduction Valentine offers this […]
[…] up the whole discussion about the responsibility of intellectuals and the integrity of cultural and political discourse first sparked by Lasch way back in 1967 when the CIA funding was initally revealed. I would add four very non-theoretical points which academics may one day like to follow up – preferably with a shorter time […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Roosevelt Study Centre, Middelburg, The Netherlands, 18-19 October 2001. See note (1) The impulse for this event came from Frances Stonor Saunders’ Who Paid The Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, and the media coverage that it received after its publication in 1999. The intention of the conference was to give as […]
[…] Given that the official story regarding BCCI, namely that it was to be the ‘honeytrap’ for black market, illegal and terrorist operations, we might assume that the CIA was at this point aware of Siddiqui, if not the network itself. On 11 January 1999, H. M. Customs agent Maxine Crook paid Orland Europe a […]
