[…] 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 […]
[…] the support of USIA director Charles Wick, was intended to recruit ‘private sector donors’ to help in this task. In a confidential NSC memorandum Walt Raymond, the CIA director of operations who had left Langley for the NSC shortly before, described the upcoming meeting as ‘the first session with donors and Charlie has focused […]
[…] in the California desert. Links to other secrecy-related websites, eg Federation of American Scientists’ secrecy and government project, Dept of Energy, including Opennet database of declassified documents, CIA, NSA, NRO and other US intelligence agencies. Project Black Homepage http://users.arn.net/~webbfeat/PROJECT%20BLACK/ Menu includes stealth technology, Military radio monitoring, Interceptor’s tales (stealth watching/monitoring). Blue Fire Military Page […]
[…] one is that this supports Gordon Winter. For in his memoir Inside BOSS, Winter describes (p. 186) a 1968 meeting with Cecil Eprille a employee of the CIA front, Forum World Features, whom he quotes as saying, ‘There’s a feeling in America that she could become Britain’s first woman prime minister’, and suggesting that […]
Are raw prawns pink? Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order […]
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 […]
[…] what, is going on here. Finally, on 28th March Ken asked the junior MOD minister, Roger Freeman, “If he will provide details of the use of forged CIA documents by the armed forces in Northern Ireland from 1971 to the present date.”Consider the alternatives facing the civil servant who answered this. If the answer […]
[…] It should be a major work, extremely well-researched (see his previous work on Shadrin) with many new interviews and material. Due soon from Carter’s Director of the CIA, Admiral Stansfield Turner (Rhodes Scholar 1947), is Security and Democracy: the CIA in transition. And a new blockbuster is on the way from Anthony Summers, he […]
[…] the U.S. intelligence estimating process; (2) but I also read books about UFOs. Both are part of political reality as I see it. Indeed both overlap: the CIA is certainly interested in UFOs. A loose alliance of intelligence officers in America, led by a CIA officer named Ron Pandolphi, has spent the last 20 […]
