[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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: […]
[…] somebody writing for the U.S. intelligence community during the Reagan-Bush years. What about the FBI, loyalty programs, Cointelpro, McCarthyism, Operations Chaos, Minaret et al at home; the CIA abroad? A ‘fear of clandestine forces’ on the part of the ruling elites of ‘the Middle East’ is entirely rational. Pipes concludes, absurdly: ‘Twofold recommendations. As […]
[…] 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: […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (Dennis Freney, PO Box A716, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia – £4.50 airmail, £3.75 seamail: international money orders only) In Lobster 11 (p31) we referred to CIA operations in Australia in the middle 1970s. Since then we have received Freney’s Get Gough!, the most detailed account of those episodes we know of. This […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
