[…] 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 […]
[…] diverse circle of friends in international politics to build an anonymous action group, ‘transnational security organisation’, and to widen its field of operations. Crozier worked with the CIA for years. One has to assume, therefore, that they are fully aware of his activities. He has extensive connections with members, or more accurately, former members, […]
[…] Reuters report from Moscow, the Soviet Union denied that a missing Korean Airlines jumbo jet had been forced to land on Sakhalin.” Now, those “early reports” had CIA authority, and went as such to Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow and Anchorage – and thence, via Washington, to relatives of American passengers. Was it a simple error? […]
[…] that and nothing else. Students of Big Jim, ignore this book at their peril. Available in the U.K. as an import. Lane, Mark. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991. xvi plus 393 pp. Illustrated, index. Lane’s account of the Liberty Lobby defence he […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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; […]
[…] 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: […]
[…] 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) […]
