[…] 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 […]
[…] their military resistance to Israel.(10) Special relationships When it comes to terrorism ‘Britain is not part of the problem, Britain is the problem.’ According to one former CIA operative, we are ‘an Islamist swamp’. So much so that 40 per cent of ‘CIA activity designed to prevent a new terrorist spectacular on American soil […]
[…] 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 […]
James Jesus Angleton and the ‘Third Way’ The CIA counter-intelligence expert James Angleton has for years been regarded as one of the keenest of cold warriors, who turned the CIA inside out in the search for Soviet ‘moles’ and ultimately had to be retired to prevent further damage to the Agency. But interesting current […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] strange affair. It was really little more than a World in Action half hour from the late 1970s puffed-up, complete with redundant reconstruction of Wilson and Mar cia Falkender meeting BBC journalists Penrose and Courtiour (Pencourt). Is the TV audience now presumed to be incapable of watching half an hour of factual material? Do […]
[…] in the United States in the 1970s working with Edwin Feulner, the founder of the Heritage Foundation. But if Heritage is, as I am regularly told, a CIA operation, what does this make Adam Smith? The other section of the book is a series of interviews with a selection of the Great and the […]
[…] disastrous Iranian hostage operations, the Pentagon created a new intelligence/covert ops unit called Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), also known, apparently, as “the activity”. Augmenting both the CIA and the Pentagon’s own DIA, ISA existed for at least a year without Presidential/Congressional knowledge or approval. The unit is said to have operated in Central […]
[…] of a long piece by Uri Dowbenko, now working with Steamshovel, who is making another attempt at a sort of Christic Institute mega conspiracy theory about the CIA and drugs. It includes what purports to be an affidavit from the Reagan-era Director of the CIA William Casey. (To me it appears the most obvious […]
[…] 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 […]
