[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] however, is decently produced and a ‘clean’ read. The story of the drug culture of the sixties and seventies is important and entertaining; and while it still leaves all the loose ends loose – was the whole thing a CIA social experiment which ran amok? – this is the best account we have to date.
[…] by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to jump out a window, decided that ‘mind control’ of the Manchurian Candidate variety did […]
[…] it doesn’t actually substantiate the claim made by ‘Torbitt’ for which it is offered as evidence. I’m reasonably certain that ‘Torbitt’ is disinformation, probably produced by the CIA in the wake of the Garrison inquiry. It may even have been a response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, a couple of years before. […]
