[…] 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 […]
[…] 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: […]
[PDF file]: Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA Jonathan Marshall Alliances between the Central Intelligence Agency and organized crime in the United States remain some of the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War era. The Agency went to extraordinary lengths to cover up its recruitment of leading U.S. mobsters in 1960 to assassinate […]
[PDF file]: Journalism and pornography Real crime is always organised Dr. T. P. Wilkinson The CIA As Organised Crime How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World Douglas Valentine Clarity Press, 2016 When I began reading the work of Douglas Valentine about six years ago, I had not read his books, only the articles that the […]
[PDF file]: Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell Garrick Alder In response to an inquiry made by one of the twelve NASA astronauts to have walked on the Moon, the CIA prevented a future CIA Deputy Director from revealing the truth about the so-called ‘Roswell Incident’. The truth about the supposed crash of an extraterrestrial […]
[PDF file]: WHITE MALICE The CIA and the covert recolonization of Africa Susan Williams London: C. Hurst & Co., 2021, £25, h/b Robin Ramsay This is a very big book, 517 pages of text and another 70 of notes, sources and index. Williams’ previous book was Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and […]
[PDF file]: The CIA and Radio Nord Simon Matthews In Jan Stocklassa’s The Man Who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin, reviewed in this issue of Lobster, Alf Enerström is named as one of a group of people suspected of being behind the assassination of Swedish PM Olof Palme. […]
[PDF file]: Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA A Confession from The Profession Udo Ulfkotte San Diego, California: progressivepress.com, 2019, p/b, £19.631 Robin Ramsay The first words in this book are from the publisher: ‘About the title: “In the Pay of the CIA” is a figure of speech, a bit of poetic license.’ But […]
[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel […]
[…] of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? […]
