George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex- CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out […]
[…] yet the aircraft used are unsuitable, and must be spe cially modified (often heavily modified) for the missions. We are told that the pilots and crew were CIA staffers. Well, CIA’s field staff at that time numbered a few thousand, world-wide, for all missions. Flying missions from carriers is dangerous enough, requiring the highest […]
[…] in which he stated: ‘Previously, I have considered going to the State Department and having them ask the British government to intervene. I have learned that the CIA has asked the British intelligence and the Police to assist in resolving problems with Victorian.’ US military intelligence It is not only John Alexander and his […]
[…] of Heroin In South East Asia (US 1973) which documented US involvement in the opium traffic of the Golden Triangle and got McCoy into trouble with the CIA. But this volume is exactly what its title suggests, and is unlikely to be of too much interest to anyone with out a specialised interest in, […]
[…] plan to use British Nazis to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival – fortunately thwarted). Herman and Brodhead argue that there is no hard evidence to suggest the CIA led or even allowed the plot against the Pope. The KGB certainly look less guilty than the CIA. But the CIA played a crucial role in […]
[…] July 1984) Defectors’ stories are bound to be suspect. How much credence would the world have given to Phillip Agee had he published his book on the CIA while living in Moscow? The non-defector books are hardly more encouraging. Take two recent examples, John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand (London 1983) and Dezinformatzia […]
[…] assassination of JFK’ and that’s not all: it ‘also demolishes the leading conspiracy theories, putting to rest once and for all speculation about the involvement of the CIA, FBI and the mafia, and the supposed links between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.’ And there’s more, ‘Case Closed answers all lingering questions about the […]
[…] communities in the post-9/11 world. The book wrestles with these key questions: how is it that the super-rationalist West, with all of the massive resources of the CIA, TIARA (Tactical Intelligence and Related Activities) and SIS, were completely unable to stop a few guys with Stanley knives flying jet planes into the World Trade […]
[…] give one example, to show their methods – the deaths of the British journalist Jonathan Moyle in Chile, Ian Spiro, said to be working either for the CIA or MI6 – or both – and Abbie Hoffman. Moyle’s in there because he was interested, apparently, in some of the same people as Casolaro; and […]
[…] seasoned campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and important texts have not been referred to. […]
