[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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.
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] In fact as his evidence often shows, domestic elements needed no encouragement from abroad. This is not to deny the proven murderous capabilities of NATO and/or the CIA, but rather to point out they are an all too easy target, and that the attribution needs to be specifically proved in each case. For such […]
[…] Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue to make it look like the Catholic Diem was responsible, they could back Kennedy into […]
[…] 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 […]
