[…] a child. In his Polish identity, Goleniewski was, verifiably, perhaps the most important offi cial from East Bloc intelligence ever to defect into the arms of the CIA. Goleniewski joined the Soviet intelligence apparatus in Poland at the end of WW2, and by 1955 had reached the rank of colonel and deputy chief of […]
[…] likely to create a faith, than perpetual reiteration of the fact that we are looking for one, must find one, are lost without one, etc etc.‘(1) The CIA, like every institution of government, has had its own dynamic, its own interests, and its own perspectives on how best to serve the wider interests of […]
See also: Part 2 in Lobster 38 ‘In any event, and whatever certain people in a certain department in the CIA may have been after, as far as the work of the Congress was concerned the perceived need to be perpetually “of the Left and on the Left” led sometimes to grotesque intellectual contortions.'(1) […]
[…] hand it is clear that until approximately 1970 the US government had taken little notice of psychic research and its possible implications for intelligence and warfare. The CIA had investigated the use of psi for intelligence gathering purposes in early fifties, but rather in the way the police departments sometimes seek assistance from psychics […]
edited by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Christopher Andrew Frank Cass, London/Portland, Oregon, 1997, £15.00 pb There are two kinds of books about the CIA: there are those like William Blum’s, advertised in this issue, which see the CIA simply as part of the US post-war empire, the sharp end of imperial enforcement, somewhere between […]
[…] best. Shaw was a homosexual and may have had a relationship with Ferrie (also a homosexual) – pictures exist which suggest that. Shaw was connected to the CIA (as was Ferrie) but only in a minor way; while Ferrie had been involved in operations surrounding the Bay of Pigs. Ferrie had known Oswald for […]
[…] 8 1998 the CIA’s Inspector General published a report on the recent CIA-cocaine controversy which – apparently – more or less copped the lot, acknowledging that the CIA had ignored drug smuggling by its Contra allies. (See for example The Independent 7 November 1998, ‘CIA turned a deliberate blind eye to Contras’ drug smuggling’.) […]
[…] attempted to recruit him. Nosenko’s testimony was welcome to almost all concerned: a ‘lone nut’ was the verdict that was required. But Counter Intelligence (CI) in the CIA, debriefing Nosenko, began to detect what it thought were flaws in Nosenko’s story, and the suspicion began to grow (in the minds of men congenitally inclined […]
[…] that had these freebies. The State Department, via the London embassy, was sending back masses of reports. The idea that this was just the role of the CIA is false. None of these British reports have surfaced but over a 1000 pages of such reports made by the New Zealand US embassy to the […]
[…] For the Fiji job they sent along an Australian, Alan Carroll, a graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. This provided cover to bring in an American CIA employee, Dr Jeffrey Race, who operated under a business cover called Asian Strategy based in Bangkok. The aptly named Dr Race was a specialist in Malaysian […]
