[…] (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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] classmate in Switzerland. Later with the rank of Colonel, he resumed lecturing in the Officers’ College, and currently is serving in His Majesty’s Guard.’ According to a CIA report dated February 1976, ‘The Shah’s communication and relations with his military and intelligence organs are conducted through one of his oldest friends, who was the […]
[…] about trade being good for Third World nations, some of us nearly passed out. Symonds obviously mistook these hard-nosed executives for people with a social conscience……’ The CIA and the 1975 Referendum on EEC membership Sir Richard Body’s encounter with purported CIA personnel prior to the 1975 Referendum on British membership of the EEC […]
[…] January 1984 British Defoliation UK used dioxide based defoliants in war in Malaya 1951-53. New Scientist 19th January 1984 CIA’S MK Ultra Programme 9 Canadians, victims of CIA brain washing experiments under MK Ultra are suing the US government. There is a suggestion that the UK government was involved in similar operations. Part of […]
[…] away, sold, thrown out or pulped. William Welsh, Deputy Librarian of Congress, believed that ‘libraries shouldn’t be regarded as “warehouses of little-used material”‘, while the sinister Patri cia Battin, of the Commission on Preservation and Access, has said that ‘the value, in intellectual terms of the proximity of the book to the user has […]
[…] Middle East), Musumeci formed a ‘parallel SISMI’, or ‘Super S’, which, according to some reports (Parapolitics/Intelligence XII 1984-’85) included Pazienza, member of SISMI and liaison with the CIA and the French SDECE Lt. Col Guiseppi Belmont, and Michael Ledeen, American journalist involved in propounding the ‘Bulgarian connection’ and former SISMI liaison agent with the […]
[…] Gary Patrick Hemming, and headed by Cuban exile Anselmo Alliergro IV, who dealt with Latin American sales. In 1974 Werbell was involved in a “conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco (international fugitive and Nixon campaign contributor) and various corporations to finance clandestine guerilla activities in South America. Vesco wanted to purchase Werbell’s stock of […]
[…] trying to bring to light the truth about Guatemalan death squads; a brief memoir from Ralph McGehee of CIABase on his time as an analyst in the CIA; and a transcript of testimony given to a Congressional seminar by Alfred McKoy, author of The Politics of Heroin, ‘C.I.A. Covert Actions and Drug Trafficking’. $20 […]
