[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] political leaders. Crude interference in dozens of foreign democratic elections. Gross manipulation of labour movements. Shameless manufacture of ‘news’, the disinformation effect of which is multiplied when CIA assets in other countries pick up the same stories. Providing handbooks, materials and encouragement for the practice of torture. Chemical or biological warfare or the testing […]
[…] weapons, Peter Dale Scott demolishing Posner’s Case Closed (it’s worth getting just for that); plus material on Area 51, Pat Robertson, and the mysterious shooting at the CIA. This would been a cracking good issue at any time; to do this first time out is tremendously impressive. As well as the articles there are […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Research Department, Common Cause and the rest of the ‘anti-communism’ apparatus, we are told nothing. Though Brivati quotes from the US Senate 1976 Church Committee report on CIA activity and front organisations, there is similarly no attempt to describe, even less, assess, Gaitskell’s role in relation to American activities during the Cold War. We […]
[…] 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. […]
