[…] 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.
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] so complicated and so much bigger than they would have needed for the purpose of providing a pretext for assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq. The discovery that CIA Director at the time, George Tenet, ‘forgot’ about two meetings with George Bush just before 9/11, one lasting most of the day, in Texas, leads Henshall […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] a quick skim, only three snippets struck me. On p. 53 Kalugin reports that he and other Soviet intelligence officers were responsible for the rumours that the CIA had killed UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. On p. 170 he reports that ‘after the fall of the Salazar regime Portuguese working for the KGB drove a […]
