[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] operation in the USA at the time of 9/11, some of whose members were seen celebrating as the planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Matthiessen and the CIA ‘The Burgeoning Rebirth of a Bygone Literary Star’ by Celia McGee in The New York Times of 3 January 2007, is about a recent documentary film […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]
[PDF file]: The Devil’s Chessboard Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government David Talbot William Collins, London, 2015 HB, 686pp., illus., index, bib., refs., £25.00 This truly excellent biography is at least partly a biography of two men, Allen Dulles and his older brother John Foster. I write ‘at least partly’ because […]
[PDF file]: Cold War Anthropology The CIA, the Pentagon and the growth of dual use anthropology David H. Price Durham (North Carolina) and London, Duke University Press, 2016, paperback, 452 pages, bibliography, notes, index. B eginning in 1967, journalists and academics have shown that during the first Cold War with the Soviet Union the CIA tried […]
