[PDF file]: Beyond Bugliosi: the Manson murders revisited CHAOS Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O’Neill (with Dan Piepenbring) London: Heinemann, 2019, £20 (h/b) David Black Hollywood Horrors In March 1999, as the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders approached, Tom O’Neill was assigned by the movie magazine, Premiere, to […]
[PDF file]: Just deserters? Just deserts? Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves Matthew Sweet London: Picador, 2018; 351 pp., illustrations, notes Anthony Frewin There’s a footnote to a footnote in the history of the Vietnam War, and that’s the story of the deserters. It could be said to begin […]
[…] images of MKUltra documents were provided to Intellnet by an anonymous donor. Archive of document images is at www.intellnet.org/mkultra Also on MKUltra and related fields: Report by CIA Inspector General on MKUltra: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0003.htm CIA IG’s memo on CB research at Fort Detrick: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0004.htm Influencing human behaviour: www.cryptome.org/ mkultra-0001.htm Covert research facility for biological and […]
[…] political turn they generally did not last long. Offi cial records from 1953 show that in British Guiana, the elected socialist government was overthrown by British and CIA terrorism in order to secure the flow of cheap sugar and bauxite. That was a busy year. The elected nationalist government in Iran met the same […]
[…] somebody writing for the U.S. intelligence community during the Reagan-Bush years. What about the FBI, loyalty programs, Cointelpro, McCarthyism, Operations Chaos, Minaret et al at home; the CIA abroad? A ‘fear of clandestine forces’ on the part of the ruling elites of ‘the Middle East’ is entirely rational. Pipes concludes, absurdly: ‘Twofold recommendations. As […]
[…] simply unavailable to the public. (Some examples: ‘According to a high-ranking Pentagon offi cial’, ‘according to Bruce Roberts, author of the Gemstone File’, ‘according to a secret CIA report’, etc.) Citations of this sort are the investigative equivalent of smoke and mirrors. In the event, Moore defines a professional conspiracist as one ‘who see(s) […]
As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to […]
[…] (Dennis Freney, PO Box A716, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia – £4.50 airmail, £3.75 seamail: international money orders only) In Lobster 11 (p31) we referred to CIA operations in Australia in the middle 1970s. Since then we have received Freney’s Get Gough!, the most detailed account of those episodes we know of. This […]
[…] number of minor inaccuracies it includes one major misrepresentation, namely that the European Movement, of which I was director between 1969 and 1986, received funding from the CIA and that the accounting structure of the Movement was designed to hide this fact. When Mr. Mullen interviewed me for the purposes of his article he […]
[…] the intelligence services’.(20) Unsurprising, perhaps, that veteran journalist Tom Mangold should claim Kelly’s death was investigated by ‘Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present.’(21) Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion of Iraq; the dodgy dossier; the 45 minute […]
