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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] impact on the spook market of the rise of the Chinese, Korean and Indian economies is considerable, other countries can match what the US can offer. The CIA could consider selling off its name while its brand recognition, in an ever more crowded market, remains high. Watch out for CIA merchandise! US irritations with […]
