[…] to attempts by the New York Times and Washington Post to publish stories on the Pentagon Papers in June 1971 against US government attempts to suppress publication. CIA Stalling State Dept Histories on Indonesia, July 2001‘State Historians conclude US passed names of Communists to Indonesian Army, which killed at least 105,000 in 1965-66.’ www.edu.gwu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] The authors haven’t exposed much that is new, instead they have taken all the previous stories and strung them together to make a damning indictment of the CIA. All your favourite stories are in here, from Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] journalists. Fringe Intelligence, for example, is a monthly bulletin of around 1 Mb! To subscribe send the message ‘start fringe’ to Fringe would welcome finan cial donations. 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 […]
