[…] businessman and one-time drug trafficer, and George Petrie, ex-Special Forces, whose speciality in Vietnam was to lead assassination teams behind Vietcong lines. Petrie has ‘associates in the CIA’. A short time before the Grenada invasion Mr Wyche, Democratic Chairman of the House Intelligence Sub-Committee on Central America, disclosed that covert intelligence operations were likely […]
[…] the Labour Party. (25) Haseler worked for the ‘left-face’ of the US National Strategy Information Centre (NSIC)one of the funders of Brian Crozier’s Forum World Features, a CIA front. He co-authored Eurocommunism with the NSIC’s Roy Godson, who ‘helped Oliver North channel contributions from private donors to the contras by using the Heritage Foundation […]
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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the Urals – were not a million miles removed from what had been discussed at a more formal level in 1939. The 1949 sterling crisis: a CIA connection? The 1949 sterling devaluation, of 20 per cent, was the first of the postwar era. For many years the sterling crisis was put down to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] tag on the murder of me and my family and my friends – then supposed to be a Yablonski-type wipe out – and since changed to a CIA type slow-torture die on the vine type of thing. They know how to hurt all right. I watch my mother and father rot daily – in […]
[…] 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 […]
