[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 […]
[…] tidying-up the loose ends on the ground), followed by a sophisticated CIA-directed cover-up, perhaps? In Lobster 23 I hypothesized, semi-seriously, that the straw which finally triggered the CIA to remove JFK was his support for the rapprochement between the Christian Democrats and the Italian Socialist Party — the so-called apertura a sinistra in Italy. […]
[…] US high technology found its way to Israel through Harari’s network. Harari’s main contact in the US is a figure often mentioned in the Contra investigations, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald […]
[…] to fit UK events into the framework provided by Gemstone. On the first page we get Miller, Judah Binstock, Lansky, Luciano, Nixon, Onassis, Danite Mormons (?), Watergate, Hughes, Kennedy, CIA JFK, the Warren Commission……It’s a farrago in which one or two suggestive facts are buried under a torrent of nonsensical assertions. For Gemstone buffs only.
[…] deny this seems perverse; but the authors would have rather perverse judgements than the real world. At one point they refer to ‘the supposed role of the CIA in the overthrow of Chilean leftist president Salvatore Allende’ (p. 35) Yet the documents, official US government documents, which show the CIA’s involvement in the overthrow […]
[…] continues to subsidise the right-wing Washington Times.12 Two deeper factors reinforce the continuity sketched in the preceding paragraph. One is the continuing involvement of regular or “rogue” CIA officers , such as Ray Cline or Edwin Wilson, at every stage.13 Another, not unrelated, is the recurring allegations that the China Lobby, the Unification Church […]
[…] has a big study of this, in two versions. The short one, in hard copy in Variant issue 27, is at and the full-length one is at CIA: on the CIA see , a French language list of names and some photographs; Carl Bernstein’s groundbreaking mid-1970s piece on the CIA and the media is […]
[…] exile group known as the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because it had collaborated […]
[…] thrust of his theory is that the Twin Towers were brought down by ‘Mossad secret agents working with a cabal of US arms manufacturers, the FBI, the CIA and blessing of the US government’. Fair enough, some might say. However, Shayler then claims that the planes involved in the attacks were ‘missiles wrapped in […]
[…] Spencer Oliver’s phone? This is discussed elsewhere in this issue.) The senior Bush’s role as Republican National Committee chair during Watergate; and then as head of the CIA during the post Watergate period, notably the Team B episode which paved the way for the Second Cold War of the Reagan years. The October Surprise […]
