[…] 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: […]
[…] 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: […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
