[…] 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 […]
[…] The British and American systems’ senior intelligence personnel used last-minute information which purported to show that Iraq was a threat. In the USA the Director of the CIA and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colin Powell, used the now notorious ‘uranium from Niger’ scam – based on crudely forged documents (6) – […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] The only real multiracial political grouping in Fiji was/is the Labour Party. In his Rogue State (p. 153) William Blum gives a brief account of an apparent CIA operation concerning Fiji in 1987. (1) In April of that year, within a month of his winning a democratic election, Prime Minister Bavrada of the Labour […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: The higher strangeness Secret Life of Uri Geller: CIA masterspy? Jonathan Margolis London: Watkins, 2013, £8.99, p/b This is the second book about Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and […]
