[…] any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But even this isn’t true. The major part of the CIA’s work is concerned with the National Intelligence Estimates, collating and assessing information on the perceived […]
The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this while completing one of the most amazing somersaults […]
[…] paper and stare at a computer screen a lot. This is interesting to me but wouldn’t be much fun to read about. To write his seminal 1986-published CIA: a forgotten history, (12) took Blum four years of sitting in libraries in London. There’s not a lot you can say about that; and Blum doesn’t […]
[…] Year’s Day 1981. (Sunday News 20th May 1984) SD The Brotherhood of Eternal Love Stuart Tendler and David May (Granada, London 1984) Frank Zappa always said the CIA were behind the psychedelic revolution. Maybe not, but there are some interesting characters and international crooks like Robert Vesco behind the financing of LSD production. Tendler […]
[…] latter event is the main reason behind US pressure for polygraphs and union ban, as being computerised, Platform will be more vulnerable to union action. Claim that CIA fear of unions at GCHQ the main reason for union ban. Mail On Sunday 8th April GCHQ member (one of the union hold-outs) claims polygraph forced […]
[…] enquiry was Bernard Rostker, the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness. Hardly the person one would expect to be privy to top secret information on a sensitive CIA operation. Besides, I was to later learn that Black Cat almost certainly was subject to a ‘compartmented’ mission name, so that at different levels of the […]
[…] elderly gentlemen sitting over cups of coffee and discussing world developments. What do these fellows want? MP ‘A’: These are no elderly gentlemen – they are former CIA and BND people working together. MP ‘X’: I feel it is dangerous if we publicize such things. If such matters were to become public, it would […]
[…] in my local library with a UK price stuck over the dollar price, suggesting a few were imported. This should have been sub-titled ‘The Politics of the CIA in the 1980s’. I’ve read this twice, the second time to check that my initial perception that this was a very remarkable book was correct. It […]
[…] executing only tasks that were in line with my own objectives.'(pp. xii, xiii) But on p. xii of the preface he tells us he ‘worked with’ the CIA, MI6 and IRD; on p. 20 he tells that briefings he had been getting from an MI6 officer secured for him the job as editor of […]
[…] always willing to roll over for the state when it comes to Irish questions? Perhaps one of our readers working for those dailies would care to explain. CIA in Northern Ireland The Irish Republic’s Military Intelligence (G.2) discovered that the CIA were behind a plot to spy on loyalist paramilitary groups. (Sunday News 27th […]
