[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 […]
[…] (London 1984) written with “the help of Western intelligence officials” (Sunday Times 11th March 1984), and actually two ex-members of MI5 and (I believe) two ex-members of CIA Counter Intelligence. One of the MI5 members, Arthur Martin, is part of the Hollis business. The book itself is appalling, turgid, repetitive, barely documented and, most […]
[…] classmate in Switzerland. Later with the rank of Colonel, he resumed lecturing in the Officers’ College, and currently is serving in His Majesty’s Guard.’ According to a CIA report dated February 1976, ‘The Shah’s communication and relations with his military and intelligence organs are conducted through one of his oldest friends, who was the […]
[…] about trade being good for Third World nations, some of us nearly passed out. Symonds obviously mistook these hard-nosed executives for people with a social conscience……’ The CIA and the 1975 Referendum on EEC membership Sir Richard Body’s encounter with purported CIA personnel prior to the 1975 Referendum on British membership of the EEC […]
[…] murders, corruption or gross ineptitude on the part of the magnicida‘s bodyguard; and, last but by no means least, the presence of a ‘former’ agent of the CIA….. Whether these similarities are evidence of anything, or merely coincidental, is unknown to me. But Mexico, a fabulous, hospitable, cultured nation, is going through desperate times. […]
[…] the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor thesis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To the latter’s account can be […]
[…] Crimenet connection; netsurfer focus on cryptography and privacy (lots of links); virtual world of spies and intelligence. Links to resource directories: human intelligence and covert ops – CIA; signals intelligence and comms. security – NSA: economic intelligence; information warfare. Material on Gulf War, counter-terrorism page, OLIN (on-line intelligence project). History: origins of intelligence services; […]
[…] and Howard Friel reported that at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Robert Gates, Melvin Goodman former division chief of the Office of Soviet Analysis at the CIA said: ‘There was very good, sensitive DO evidence that suggested the Soviets were not linked to the assassination attempt on the Pope.’ The CIA, said Goodman […]
[…] story may find the brevity of some of the chapters unsatisfactory. The Blum book is much the more significant of the two. His two previous books, The CIA: a forgotten history (London: Zed Press, 1986) and its revised and expanded version, Killing Hope: U.S. military and CIA interventions since World War 2 (Monroe, Maine: […]
[…] Happy families The journal Qualitative Inquiry has published a special issue focusing on Harold Lloyd Goodall, Jr.’s book A need to know: the clandestine history of a CIA family (Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2006). ‘By locating his narrative within scholarship dedicated to family secrecy and to cultural histories of the cold war […]
