[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler […]
[…] I thought! And so did every other liberal I knew at the time. Surprisingly, this was also the point-of-view of James McCord, the right-wing evangelist and former CIA officer who led the break-in team into the Watergate. In a series of odd ‘newsletters’, written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy […]
[…] study. () Down on the farm Hailed as Britain’s first feature length cartoon, the 1955 production of Animal Farm turns out to have been funded by the CIA, using American newsreel (March of Time), documentary and feature film producer Louis de Rochemont as a conduit.() Having provided the money, the CIA also had ‘psy […]
[…] buy the Soviet Union’s attempts to lay the blame at the CIA’s door.(8) Sterling describes in some detail the attempts by the West’s governments/intelligence agencies (especially the CIA – of course) to bury this ‘Bulgarian connection’. She professes to find this puzzling, probably demonstrating a refusal by such agencies to acknowledge the real nature […]
