[…] 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? […]
[…] discuss Iraq. In that Rycroft reports ‘C’, head of MI6, as saying, ‘There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable.’ A CIA analyst at the time, Paul Pillar, dates the decision to ‘the beginning of 2002’;(3) and in late February the Australian Ambassador to the UN, John Dauth, […]
[…] and the brains/personalities of most of us will begin to wilt. There is one nit I would pick. After describing twenty five years of experiments by the CIA and others, Streatfield comes to the most recent group of people claiming to be the victims of malevolent state experiments. At www.mindcontrolforums.com he notes the accounts […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] synthesis of the left and right wing conspiracy theories: Oswald was involved in the conspiracy to murder the President; and he was an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent; but he was also working for the communists as a double agent of the KGB or GRU! Russell proposes […]
How MI6 and the CIA were involved in the death of Princess Diana Jon King and John Beveridge New York: SPI Books, 2002, £18.95 In the five years since the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, interest in Diana herself may have waned, (1) but the circumstances surrounding […]
[…] mission, there was only one crew-member, the pilot. This makes sense in terms of secrecy, a consideration that would have been paramount in the mind of the CIA planners. Because of this necessary limitation, is it not possible that the aircraft was adapted to carry its munitions on wing pylons that, in turn, were […]
[…] real-world Cluedo, into a genuinely useful forum for political analysis. His thesis is a development from two other books of his: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America;(2) and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.(3) Scott effectively had the story documented three years before the […]
