[…] VENONA and had found the name of Willi Brandt in it.(5) In his private correspondence Wright has written that “elements in MI5, sharing their information with the CIA, claimed that old war-time ciphers threw suspicion on Brandt himself of being a Soviet agent’. Wright’s friend James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter-intelligence division, had […]
[…] existence is a surprising development. The author is a New York Times journalist and for one of the NYT’s writers to produce a critical study of the CIA is unprecedented to my knowledge, and tells us much about the diminished status of the Agency. Of course it isn’t the history of the Agency, merely […]
[…] married Knebel in 1972. The book is an account of how Knebel and Jones discovered, through hypnotic regression of Jones, that she had been used by the CIA as a programmed courier; had, in fact, been converted into a multiple personality of the kind described by Dr George Easterbrook in the last paragraphs of […]
[…] has that familiar destabilising ring to it. And is no surprise. In Lobster 3 we reported a piece in the Times (7 July 1983) by the well-known CIA flak Brian Crozier, describing the Seychelles as one of 4 countries which ‘stand out as qualifying for low risk or no risk intervention: Angola, Seychelles, Grenada […]
[…] of the Conference’s ‘end of ideology’ theme and its main protagonists. (Scott-Smith is the author of The Politics of Apolitical Culture: the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and post-war American hegemony, Routledge, 2001, reviewed in Lobster 43) Giles Scott-Smith, ‘The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the end of ideology and the 1955 Milan Conference: […]
[…] on those three Texas Savings and Loan institutions Bentsen owned. All three, according to former Houston Post journalist Peter Brewton, ended up in the hands of the CIA and the Mafia. The press has also (mostly) steered clear of allegations that the CIA ran drugs and weapons through the small airstrip at Mena, Arkansas. […]
[…] 691 4184 Last time I checked, the information could be found on the Web at www.cwihp.si.edu Lest we forget Looking for something else I came across The CIA in Australia, a five-part transcript of 1986 Australian radio programmes on the CIA’s operation to get rid of the Whitlam Labour government in Australia in the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] British industry, and Britain as a whole, would benefit from membership. Allegations have since been made that these studies were funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the U.S. being in favour of British entry.(6) Although no official record of the first campaign exists, making it difficult to assess its cost, estimates range […]
[…] the Bilderberg Group, becoming chair of the Council on Foreign Relations itself. As for ACUE, its chair was William Donovan (who ran OSS – forerunner of the CIA during the war) and its vice-chair was Allen Dulles (who was a leading figure in the CFR War and Peace Study Group during the early part […]
