[…] 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 […]
[…] source of what was supposed to be off-the-record briefing, was given as deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations, Bryan Whitman.’(22) CIA and Indonesia ‘Ghosts Of A Genocide: The CIA, Suharto And Terrorist Culture’, a long account of the American (and minor British) involvement in the slaughter in […]
[…] ACSI agreed with the method applied to enhance their conventional interrogation standards. Although little concern was shown, the question of co-ordination with other agencies such as the CIA and FBI was raised. The final decision was made that the co-ordination with the other agencies would be postponed until after the conclusion of the field […]
Nick Cook is a defence journalist of high repute, having been an Aviation Editor for the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly for fourteen years. When he says that UFO reports conceal a new technology with the potential to change the world, a technology kept secret by the US military-industrial complex for decades, he should be worth […]
[…] seemed the likely proximate cause. I think I was probably wrong about that. In his Eclipse (reviewed in this issue) Mark Perry reveals (p. 43) that the CIA were angry with the Greek government because (a) they had released from jail two people the U.S. thought were terrorists, and (b) they had then expelled […]
[…] defence establishment with the Americans. Symbolising all this is the fact that the Carlyle Group’s representative on the QinetiQ board is George Tenet, the Director of the CIA at the time of the Iraq invasion. The Carlyle Group was established in 1987 to exploit tax loopholes in Alaska, but really only took off in […]
[…] (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a parapolitical researcher and on some things he’s probably wrong, […]
[…] anti-Castro Cuban end; and the anti-Castro Cubans were awash in American money and case officers. The politi cians may not have known but I would bet the CIA and the military did. Robert Kennedy played the Nixon role in the original Bay of Pigs plan: he was the White House action officer. The Kennedys […]
Tom Mangold (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) On things Angleton, Tom Mangold’s Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) is very good but is not the biography it pretends to be. There is nothing on Angleton’s time in Italy after the war; and, even more extraordinary, […]
[…] the American people at a great cost to liberty.’ For thirty years the NSA obtained copies of most telex messages entering and leaving the U.S., and the CIA illegally intercepted thousands of first-class letters as they left the country. If the high-tech NSA were ever turned against us, Church said, ‘no American would have […]
