[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] sterling cheques or US dollars only, please. The Secret Team David Guyatt points out that the 1997 third edition of Fletcher Prouty’s classic 1973 book about the CIA, The Secret Team, is now available in e-format at http://www.ratical.com It comes complete with index, appendices, prefaces etc. It is downloadable in both HTML and Text […]
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 […]
[…] San Jose Mercury News which claimed that cocaine being consumed in black areas of cities in California was being brought in by a network linked to the CIA via the war against Nicaragua. Quite why the Mercury stories created a storm and this book did not remains a mystery to me, for there is […]
[…] 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 […]
