[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] network, but was blocked from probing them by the powers-that-be. One major player he was espe cially interested in, New Yorker Ronald Stark, was suspected of having CIA connections. Ron Stark (1938-84) was first convicted in 1962 for making a false job application for government service and imprisoned for parole violation. Between 1967, when […]
[…] out his version of the overthrowing of the Gough Whitlam government. The most interesting point he made was that the UK intelligence services were involved with the CIA. Extraordinary though this now seems, this had never struck me. The links between the US, UK, New Zealand and Australian intelligence services are detailed in the […]
