[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] relationship to the, then, unrecognised East German government. Spectator February 14 1976 NOTEBOOK While left-wing journals – doubtless innocently – have been helping assassination squads to identify CIA agents throughout the world, attention has been diverted from what the other side are up to over here. In fact, just four years and five months […]
[…] describes a change in NATO estimates of Soviet military spending. What they are actually doing is anybody’s guess. This study, taken with an earlier version by the CIA which came to similar conclusions, marks the end of a period in which inflated estimates of Soviet military spending have been accepted (at least in public) […]
[…] 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? […]
[…] world of industrial espionage is a curiously under-reported place. Reading Bamford’s work proves the point. He appears to accept the proposition, made by James Woolsey, a former CIA director, (quoted in the Euro-report) that: ‘Even if espionage yielded economically usable intelligence, it would take an analyst a very long time to analyse the large […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
