[…] Geheim contributor Uwe Herzog) of an exhaustive work on the undercover activities of the German police, Jurgen Roth and Michael Opperskalski, co-author of three books on the CIA (1). Geheim sets out to expose both the secret side of the German state and foreign clandestine operations in West Germany, and the most recent issue […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] which is dedicated to the memory of the late, great, Bill Hicks?) Steamshovel 11 contains part 3 of G. J. Krupey’s piece on JFK, LSD and the CIA; an interview with Alan Cantwell, one of the AIDS heretics of America and author of Queer Blood; a piece about Clinton, Mena and the whole Arkansas […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘October Surprise’ events (which has). The part of the deposition reproduced by PFP alleges, as the subhead has it, ‘Richard Brenneke puts mob boss John Gotti and CIA boss Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.’ The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel Brandt, whose essay on […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
