[…] was then a short interval before the Congress was due to meet to confirm Allende’s election on 24 October. The record (‘Genesis of Project FUBELT’), of a CIA meeting called by Director Richard Helms ‘in connection with the Chilean situation’, shows a US determination to undermine Allende. It shows that Helms told those present: […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Independent on Sunday (8 June) hinted that DeAnne Julius, one of Gordon Brown’s appointments to the Bank of England committee advising on interest rates, was a former CIA analyst, the Sunday Time (6 July) stated it as fact, but it was Nick Cohen in the Observer (19 October) who nailed it. Cohen’s ‘Why is […]
[…] 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) […]
[…] the Pope One of the most successful major scale disinformation projects since Lobster was begun has been the KGB-shot-the-Pope story created by Brian Crozier’s chums in the CIA. Hardly anyone still believes this nonsense but this didn’t stop the Sunday Times running a very strange, thin version of the ‘KGB story’ on 9 January […]
[…] project got underway. Overall it became known as Project PANDORA, and it included a number of parallel projects, such as Projects TUMS, MUTS, and BAZAR, involving the CIA, Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), the State Department, the Navy and the Army. They were tasked to study the effects of the emitted Soviet microwaves on […]
[…] and refers readers’ enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number 36) contains a grim but well researched piece by John Kelly about postwar CIA collaboration with Nazi doctors in radiation experiments in the US, and much other stuff of interest. Despite its frequent typos, Unclassified is a very valuable resource. […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
