[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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? […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
