[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Clinton done that could possibly be compared with, for example, the Savings and Loan rip-off, the biggest financial scandal in US history? NEWMAN, JOHN. Oswald and the CIA. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995. xviii + 627 pps. Illustrated, notes (incorporating bibliography), index. Newman, known for his magisterial study, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, […]
[…] of Space Aliens from the Pentagon. In a flyer for his excellent catalogue Flatland,(2) Jim Martin comments: ‘Whatta title. Lyne claims info on man-made saucers, Nazi tech, CIA disinfo on free energy motors that power them. Plausible premise, but announcing how he saw Adolf and Eva Hitler in San Antone with LBJ in ’67 […]
In 1976 Mary Ferrell discovered a curious CIA document, a telegram that had been sent from the Agency office in London to headquarters in Langley on 23 November 1963, the day after JFK was assassinated. The telegram reads as follows (blacked-out(1) matter shown by brackets, with suppositions in italic): EXPRESSIONS OF SORROW AND SYMPATHY […]
[…] operation in the USA at the time of 9/11, some of whose members were seen celebrating as the planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Matthiessen and the CIA ‘The Burgeoning Rebirth of a Bygone Literary Star’ by Celia McGee in The New York Times of 3 January 2007, is about a recent documentary film […]
[…] why didn’t McCord do as he was told and bug Larry O’Brien? To which I’d reply: as the former director of physical and technical security for the CIA, McCord knew that O’Brien had recently been Howard Hughes’s Washington liaison – and, in that capacity, O’Brien had helped negotiate arrangements between Hughes and the CIA. […]
