[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] own inventions facilitating the use of radio waves, to work for the US Atomic Energy Authority, and, in 1970, to visit Israel, at the request of the CIA, to assess the abilities of Uri Geller. During this time Puharich worked closely with Sir John Whitmore.(16) They visited Warsaw in 1974 where they set up […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat …… in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield […]
[…] appears on Wikipedia and is well worth looking at, so will not be repeated here. Suffice to say that for Bush, Zapata provided a useful cover for CIA activities. The CIA’s Bay of Pigs fiasco was even code-named Zapata. Through Zapata, Bush got the political propulsion he required.(5) Carlyle One of the most rewarding […]
[…] 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 […]
